Titles of paintings as precedent phenomena


Precedent phenomenon is a linguistic phenomenon where some words—like famous
people's names (especially of historical and political figures), titles of
books or movies—are used not to indicate these people, books or movies, but as
a reference to well-known events or facts connected to them.

I'll try to give some examples in English to be more understandable:

  1. > Yesteday I met a girl in the city centre, she was a real Marilyn Monroe!

Here it doesn't mean somebody met that woman named Marilyn Monroe, but a girl
who was as beautiful as she and probably looked alike. So this name here links
to the image of Marilyn Monroe, not to the person itself.

  2. > It was a Ninth Wave at sea this weekend and it was impossible to swim.

In this sentence "Ninth Wave" refers to the painting of Russian painter Ivan
Aivazovsky with the same title. ( _The Great Wave off Kanagawa_ can be the
same example.) It means that the weather was very stormy and there were great
waves.

Does this type (titles of paintings) of precedent phenomena exist in the
Japanese language? Could you give some examples?




I am not sure if I am correctly understanding your question or your intention,
but if I am correct, for example,

Imagine, if I am now watching Mt. Fuji while driving on Route 1 (which
connects Nagoya and Tokyo).

I might say,

「おおまさしく富嶽三六景｛ふがくさんじゅうろっけい｝のようだ」(Wow, Mt.Fuji is exactly like
富嶽三六景｛ふがくさんじゅうろっけい｝)

**[富嶽三六景｛ふがくさんじゅうろっけい｝](http://woodblockprintsworld.com/fugaku-sanjurokkei-
hokusai.html)** , as you can see in the linked page, is the painting by
**[Hokusai Katsushika](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai)**

I hope this answers your question^^.




My answer would be "NO".

Such a phrase in Japanese has to be accompanied by まるで...のようだ "[is] so much
like ..." but that's not what you're looking for, is that? Of course you may
find several examples in literature but they are not a part of standard
Japanese.

