紀要論文

特集「近世日本における＜北方＞イメージ」について : 奥州の狂歌人の季節感 : 規範を超えて雪を詠む

Image for the Northern Region in Early Modern Japan : Composing Poems of Snow beyond the Norms : Seasonal Expressions by kyôka poets from the North

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https://doi.org/10.15002/00021869

法政大学国際日本学研究所

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2019-03-29

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Kyôka, literally ʻmad verseʼ, a genre of poetry comprised of thirty one syllables as well as traditional waka than the latter, was one of the most widely enjoyed genres of poetry in the century Japan. Countless numbers of amateur poets from all over the country got groups together to enjoy composing verses and joining contests monthly held by many masters. Ôshû province (present Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori prefectures) was one of the most outstanding regions in terms of the numbers of active poets and groups in the genre. They composed kyôka verses according to the norms formed in the waka tradition as a derivative genre from that. Those rules or conventions depended on the sense of the people in the capital (now Kyoto), which was not far from the one of those in Edo (Tokyo). The situation for the people in the northern Japan, however, was very different. The amount of snow was the most typical aspect of the differences in climate as we can easily imagine, and actually a kyôka master in Edo named Shûchôdô Monoyana had sent letters to his student, Hyakuchûtei Hazutaka in Aizu district, west Ôshû, expecting him to send poems of snow above all. In fact, Hazutaka left poems of snow in his notebooks including some with a remarkable concept: the strong shine of snow which had never mentioned to in the traditions of waka. Kyôka works by obscure poets like him are hardly paid attention to now, however, he seems to have suggested the possibilities that kyôka might have broken new grounds of expressions in the world of thirty-one syllables with the power of unsophisticated, naïve poets in provinces.

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