Study of scenic description in medieval Waka

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K12922
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02010:Japanese literature-related
• Research Institution: Gunma Prefectural Women's University
• Principal Investigator: ITANO Mizue 群馬県立女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (70867001)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 中世和歌 / 叙景表現 / 新古今時代 / 京極派

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, the awareness of scenic description in individual poems is analyzed with a view to examining the functions that "scenery" fulfilled in poems by Shinkokin poets and the form in which the "mind" or "heart" existed in these poems.At the same time,I redefined "scenic description" and rewrote Medieval Japanese poetry history from the viewpoint of "scenic description".
The result of repeated concrete analysis,I revealed that discrepancy between scenery and mind or heart is starting to occur in Shinkokin period and as a result the scenery and the mind or heart were given expression in a poem while being alienated from each other at the period of the Kyogoku school.

Free Research Field

中世和歌

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

「叙景」という新たな切り口から和歌史を書き換えたこの研究成果は、先行研究の蓄積によって形作られてきた和歌史を今一度相対化することに寄与した。また、和歌本文に即した表現研究が乏しい昨今の和歌研究において、客観的な表現論を積み重ねて大きな見取り図を提示したことには意義があると考える。