2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Reception of High Tang Poetry in Classical Chinese Poems by Muro Kyuso
| Project/Area Number |
16H06921
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Japanese literature
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 江戸時代 / 日本漢詩 / 室鳩巣 / 木下順庵 / 新井白石 / 祇園南海 / 盛唐詩 / 擬古 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project analyzed the frequent usage of words and phrases borrowed from High Tang poetry in the classical Chinese poems composed by Muro Kyuso (1658-1734), an early modern Japanese Confucian scholar who served the domain lord of Kaga and the Tokugawa shogun in the first half of the 18th century. The goal was to understand why High Tang poetry was imitated so frequently in his poetry.The findings show that Kyuso imitated High Tang poems particularly when expressing ideal visions of lord-vassal relationships. One plausible reason is that Kyuso was competing with the Rinke family of Confucian scholars also in service of the shogun, whose classical Chinese poetry and prose were full of Japanese-style expressions and imagery, and thus composed in an authentically Chinese style that could equal the literary works by foreign (Korean and Chinese) scholars, in order to portray Tokugawa's rule in Japan as a legitimate second coming of the ideal rule by the Sages of ancient China.
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| Free Research Field |
日本漢文学
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