The textual formation of Utsuho-monogatari's Maeda textual lineage : a basic historical study

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K21976
• 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: Tenri University
• Principal Investigator: Takahashi Ryou 天理大学, 図書館, 司書研究員 (50880233)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-09-11 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: うつほ物語 / 前田本系統 / 伝本 / 本文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The most dominant manuscript of Utsuho-monogatari in existence is the one previously owned by the Maeda family (henceforth the Maeda-bon). To shed light on the history of the textual lineage based on the Maeda-bon, the author of this paper has searched far and wide for the actual text, various members of the lineage and related materials. After investigating those copies and collecting their paper prints, the author transcribed each of them to facilitate comparison. This has led to a discovery that the Maeda textual lineage is not as uniform as commonly thought but actually has three distinct strains. The research has also helped grasp the quality of the texts and how they are related by written transmission.

Free Research Field

うつほ物語

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

『うつほ物語』の本文成立史の一端が明らかになったことで、これまで注釈者によって判断が分かれていて解決をみていなかった、底本や対校本の選定や、本文校訂の方法などを見定められる。これによって、『うつほ物語』の本文を校訂し、読解に堪えうる本文の提供が可能となる。