Translation and Study of Jest Books in classical Chinese.

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370202
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: University of Toyama
• Principal Investigator: isobe yuko 富山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00161696)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 漢文笑話 / 訳準笑話 / 善謔随訳続編 / 笑堂福聚 / 日中比較文学 / 訳読

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I translated “Shomon”, ”Korohyakuten”, “Shodofukuju”, “Zengyakuzuiyaku-zokuhen” ,“Yakujunshowa” and ”Reishuyoju”written in classical Chinese in the Edo era. I also studied each of the comical stories focusing on the preceding Edo-kobanashi and allusion and characteristics of the vocabularies originated from China.
As a result, there are mainly 3 books and 7 papers. “Jianghu de Xiao ; Riben Hanwen Xiaohua Yanjiu“ revealed the characteristics of Japanese comical stories in classical Chinese through the analysis of “Yakujunkaikoshingo”, “Zengyakuzuiyaku” and “Hentan”. Also in “Toyama bungaku no reimei ”, I pointed out that comical stories were contained in the written stories in the late Edo era. In "Cong Zhongguo Xiaofu dao Riben Xiaoduo", I examined the difference between "Yakujunshowa" written in the Edo era and "Shofu (Xiaofu)” written in the Ming dynasty.

Free Research Field

中国文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

一連の江戸時代の漢文笑話の訳読と作品の分析により、江戸文学研究における基礎的資料の提示がかなった。また、江戸後期の漢文笑話が、江戸前期漢文笑話の特徴であった小咄の翻案や中国『笑府』の模倣の枠を超えて、風刺性・物語性が増加していったことを実証した。加えて、漢文小説集の中には、笑話的色彩をとどめるものもあることを明らかにした。同時に、漢文笑話が当時の漢文教育、或いは知識人の娯楽において、大きな役割を担っていたことも明らかにした。