A Study on Reception of Basho-style Haiku in Basho's Haiku Commentary in the Mid-Early Modern Period

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K12917
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
• Research Institution: Nara Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Hattori Atsuko 奈良女子大学, 大学院人間文化総合科学研究科, 博士研究員 (60790194)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 芭蕉 / 蕉風俳諧 / 蓼太 / 荘丹

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to analyze the commentaries on Basho's haiku, "Basho Kukai" (1759) and "Basho Kukai Sanko" (1807) and clarify how Basho's haiku was received in the early modern period. to do.
"Basho Kukai" was written by Ryota, a haiku poet who gained tremendous support mainly in the Kanto region in the middle of the early modern period. In addition, Ryota's disciple Sotan wrote "Basho Kukai Sanko" by adding and correcting "Basho Kukai". Basho, who was not a special existence during his lifetime, came to be appreciated over time, and in the middle of the early modern period, he was looked up to as an absolute existence. Among many haikai poets, why were only Basho and Basho-style haikai so highly rated? What are Basho and Basho-style haikai that were modeled by haiku poets in the mid-early modern period?
In this research, I aimed to clarify it through the analysis of old annotations.

Free Research Field

日本文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

蓼太・荘丹の生きた近世中期は、蕉風復興期として近年注目されている時代である。本研究で蓼太・荘丹の芭蕉観を明らかにできれば、これら近世中期の俳諧および俳壇の研究をさらに推し進める一助となると考えられる。
また、古注釈を対象とした研究は、和歌・連歌では積極的に行われているが、俳諧では、これまでほとんど研究に活かされてこなかった。しかし、古注釈は当時の人々がその作家や作品をどう捉えているかを知るには有効な資料となるはずであり、古注釈を研究すればこれまでの現代の視点からの芭蕉研究・蕉風俳諧研究では指摘されてこなかった新しい芭蕉および蕉風俳諧の特徴が見えてくる可能性がある。