著者

管 宗次

出版者

武庫川女子大学

雑誌

武庫川女子大学紀要 人文・社会科学編 (ISSN:09163115)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.55, pp.164-159, 2007

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The late Edo period was the time when dilettantism flourished. Many literary aficionados in the Kyoto-Osaka district wrote novels, annotated classical literature, held waka and kanshi poetry parties, invited their friends to sencha tea and praised pictures they had drawn with one another. Literary men had many pseudonyms: they used different noms de plume when they made kanshi: haikai, waka and kyoka, drew pictures, and wrote novels. The various names stood for sundry characteristics of the person. Hiratsuka Hyosai was one of the most conspicuous literary aficionados in Kyoto. He had many different pen names mainly because he was affected by his friends of high society. It was also because he did not want his real name known to the world, as he was a shogunate official, a police sergeant of the Higashimachi magistrate's office of Kyoto.