A Study of Haikai Poetry Focusing on Kasen Awase

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K02471
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Kinjo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Terashima Toru 金城学院大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (30410880)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 蕉風復興運動 / 中興期俳諧 / 暁台 / 歌仙合

Outline of Final Research Achievements

My research endeavors focused on collecting materials about Kato Kyotai, a revival period haikai poet from Owari Province. I introduced Kyotai’s haikai drafts and aimed to provide precise texts. At the same time, I also endeavored to collect and reprint genuine undiscovered sources that were at risk of being scattered and lost. In particular, I focused on the highly playful haikai style and technique labeled kasen awase. The extant scholarship on the history of haikai and zappai poetry has barely attended to this practice. I obtained results by inspecting the ways in which examples of Kyotai’s kasen awase in Shimoina could be positioned in the haikai of the revival period. I scrutinized the significance of this poetry technique on the Basho revival movement. As a related research initiative, I introduced undiscovered texts on Kyotai’s verse-matching intentions and the position of the Fura Nenbutsu project, analyzing said materials in detail.

Free Research Field

近世文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

全国の俳諧文庫や旧家における広域調査により、これまで未整備であった暁台の俳諧資料を総合的に蒐集し、俳書・俳諧資料を悉皆調査・整理し、暁台とその周辺におよぶ基礎資料の作成を試みることに学術的な特色がある。その資料の作成・校訂の過程を通じ、連句と連衆（作者たち）の関係にも迫る。とくに、「歌仙合」というこれまでまったく着目されてこなかった興行形態を軸に、他の連句資料と有機的に結び付けながら分析する点も本研究の独創的な点となる。