見立て殺人

Japanese

Kanji in this term
見	立	殺	人
み Grade: 1	た Grade: 1	さつ Grade: 5	じん Grade: 1
kun’yomi		kan’on

Alternative spelling
見立て殺人 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 見立て (mitate, “allusion”, stem form of 見立てる (mitateru, “to allude”)) +‎ 殺人 (satsujin, “homicide”).

Noun

見(み)立(た)て殺(さつ)人(じん) • (mitate satsujin) 

1. an allusive murder (murder arranged in a way that alludes to something else, such as an idea, a story, a fictitious scenario, etc.)
   • 2006 November 17, Seimaru Amagi with Sato, Fumiya, “獄(ごく)門(もん)塾(じゅく)殺(さつ)人(じん)事(じ)件(けん)６(ろく) [The Prison Gate Cram School Murder Case #6]”, in 獄門塾殺人事件（上） [The Prison Gate Cram School Murder Case (First Book)] (金田一少年の事件簿) (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:

     竹(たけ)林(ばやし)で串(くし)刺(ざ)しになってた絵(え)波(なみ)がいなくなった時(とき)　古(こ)文(ぶん)の授(じゅ)業(ぎょう)でやってたのは「竹(たけ)取(とり)物(もの)語(がたり)」だった！

     Takebayashi de kushizashi ni natteta Enami ga inaku natta toki kobun no jugyō de yatteta no wa “Taketori Monogatari” datta!

     Enami, who was impaled by a bamboo in that copse, went missing during the lesson on “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter” in classical literature class!

     ‥‥え！それじゃ‥鯨(くじら)木(ぎ)君(くん)の「首(くび)吊(つ)り」ってひょっとして‥文(ぶん)学(がく)史(し)でやったドストエフスキーの「悪(あく)霊(りょう)」の主(しゅ)人(じん)公(こう)が幻(まぼろし)でみる———「自(じ)分(ぶん)の首(くび)吊(つ)り死(し)体(たい)」のことなの‥⁉

     ‥‥E! Sore ja‥ Kujiragi-kun no “kubitsuri”tte hyotto shite‥ bungakushi de yatta Dosutoefusukī no “Akuryō” no shujinkō ga maboroshi de miru———“jibun no kubitsuri shitai” no koto na no‥⁉

     ...Wait! Then... could Kujiragi-kun being “hanged” allude to Dostoyevsky’s Demons in literary history class, whose protagonist sees a vision of his own hanged body...!?

     ああ‥‼つまり絵(え)波(なみ)と鯨(くじら)木(ぎ)の死(し)体(たい)の状(じょう)況(きょう)は——この２(ふた)人(り)がいなくなった授(じゅ)業(ぎょう)を指(さ)し示(しめ)す「見(み)立(た)て殺(さつ)人(じん)」なんだ‼

     Ā‥‼ Tsumari Enami to Kujiragi no shitai no jōkyō wa—— kono futari ga inaku natta jugyō o sashishimesu “mitate satsujin” na n da‼

     Indeed...! In other words, the bodies of Enami and Kujiragi, who went missing during those respective classes, were arranged as a result of “allusive murders”!!