odd tabletとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Odd Tablet (as David Hawkes translates his penname), or more literally, Elderly Maimed Tablet (畸笏叟), was a mysterious commentator of the 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. He sometimes signed himself as merely 畸笏 ("Maimed Tablet"). He and Rouge Inkstone were the two foremost commentator of the Red Chamber manuscript, although his comments were less than those from Rouge Inkstone. He was apparently quite old and an elder as he signed himself as 叟, meaning "Elderly Man" (or he wished to be seen as such). His comments, like Rouge Inkstone's, were transcribed in red ink, so there are sometimes difficulties separating the two commentators' annotations.