Research of Zoutouka of Heian Kasyu and GenjiMonogatari

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23077
• 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: Kagawa University
• Principal Investigator: Kitahara Keiichirou 香川大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50848471)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 源氏物語 / 贈答歌 / 古今和歌集 / 後撰和歌集 / 伊勢物語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, I investigated the rules of Zoutouka, targeting the Zoutouka of the Heian Chokusen Wakasyu. It is clarified that the advanced form of deriving the opportunity of repulsion from the expression of the Zouka itself is seen especially in "Kokinwakasyu", and that it is partly inherited in the Zoutouka of "Gosenwakasyu .
Second, I investigated how the Zoutouka of "Genji Monogatari" is used as a way to effectively describe the relationships between people in the story. In "Genji Monogatari", the expression of the Zoutouka and the way of singing the Touka are consciously drawn according to the person and the situation, and the relationship between men and women that has been drawn up to that point is intensively drawn in the Zoutouka.

Free Research Field

平安時代の物語と和歌

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

『源氏物語』は、日本古典文学の中でも最高傑作の１つであり、一般読者からの人気も高く、国語教育においても主要な教材となっている作品である。本研究では、この作品を読み解く方法として、人物同士で交わされる贈答歌に注目した。『源氏物語』中では多数の人物間で贈答歌が交わされるが、それは単に同時代の習俗の反映ではなく、特定の人物関係を印象的に描き直す手段や、光源氏と多数の女君たちとの関係を描き分ける手段となっていることを明らかにした。