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前書き[まえがき] (maegaki)

foreword; preface

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前書き (まえがき, maegaki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “foreword; preface”.

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有名ゆうめいな建築けんちく家かがこの本ほんの前書まえがきを書かいています

A famous architect is writing the preface of this book.

発句が中心となって文章はその前書き、詞書としての性格が強い。

The main component of the book is haikai poetry, and prose is used for the foreword and captions for the poetry.

その前書きによると初出版以来8年間で合計約70万冊が売れたとの事である。

According to the preamble, 700,000 copies were sold during the eight years since the first was published.

中心となっているのはindex.htmlという名前のファイルで、目次や前書き、文書の他の部分へのリンクが含まれています。

The main one is called index.html, which will contain the table of contents, introductory material, and links to the other parts of the document.

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