The Interaction Between Renga Expressions and Waka Expressions in the Muromachi Period

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: Yamagata University (2020); Ochanomizu University (2019)
• Principal Investigator: Ikuta Yoshiho 山形大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (00846230)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 連歌 / 和歌 / 正徹

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research was to find how renga and waka expressions influenced each other in the Muromachi period. I examined the relation between Shotetsu's waka expressions and other poets' renga expressions around that time and found that Shotetsu proactively introduced renga expressions into his waka poems. He also created some original waka phrases based on existing renga expressions. Some of those phrases were then reintroduced into renga by renga poets and eventually became standard renga expressions.

Free Research Field

日本中世文学　連歌

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

これまで正徹の和歌が連歌に影響を与えた点が注目されてきたが、本研究では連歌の影響によって正徹の独特な和歌表現が生まれた可能性を指摘した。本研究の学術的意義および社会的意義は、「和歌から連歌へ」という流れだけでなく「連歌から和歌へ」という流れも重視し、連歌と和歌が同時代の文芸として相互に影響を与え合ったことを、実例を示しながら具体的に描き出したことにある。