plain woman 意味

• 不美人｛ふびじん｝、おたふく
  

例文

1. in the tale of genji , she was a female character whose appearance was described most elaborately , and an unusually plain woman among the other beautiful characters .
   源氏物語で最も細かく容貌を描写された女性で、美男美女ぞろいの源氏物語の中では異色の不美人である。
2. on the days of ' tori no ichi ,' stalls selling ' engi-kumade ' decorated with lucky charms that bring in good fortune such as okame (the face of a plain woman ) line up .
   「酉の市」の立つ日には、おかめや招福の縁起物を飾った「縁起熊手」を売る露店が立ち並ぶ。
3. the reason (why hangaku is described as a plain woman ) may possibly lie in a certain misunderstanding resulted from some description of her unbalanced features of the beauty and the heroism based on the strong arms (as an archer ).
   これは、美貌と武勇豪腕（弓）とのアンバランスを表現したものが誤解されてしまったと解釈される。
4. the " azuma kagami " which was written by hangaku ' s contemporary related that " (if compared to hangaku gozen ,) even the fair lady grave keeper ( ' ryoen no sho [bijo ]' in japanese , referring to a poem of the same title by a chinese poet bai juyi [hakurakuten or haku kyoi ]) would look ugly ," that is , hangaku was portrayed as beautiful , whereas the " dainihonshi " (great history of japan ) and some other literature of the succeeding generations described her as a plain woman .
   同時代に書かれた吾妻鏡では「可醜陵園妾（彼女と比べれば）陵園の美女ですら醜くなってしまう）」「件女面貌雖宜」、すなわち美人の範疇に入ると表現されているが、大日本史など後世に描かれた書物では不美人扱いしているものもある。