著者

栗原 浪絵

出版者

東京大学

雑誌

東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13421050)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, pp.327-336, 2008-03-10

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Akiko Yosano, a famous tanka poet in Japan, wrote a lot of tanka poems and essays concerning with her giving birth and raising children in the Meiji period. She also made many children's stories because she thought they were not enough during the era. This paper describes how she developed her works during the Meiji period when she gave birth to seven children and brought them up. The following three points are discussed in this paper. First, she came to make the tanka poems on her life with children after she had the twins in 1907. Second, in her essays and her children's stories, she expressed her views freely without any hesitations. She wrote the essays and children's stories with intelligence and a realistic point of view. Third, in her book of tanka poems called "Seigaiha", she expressed how hard it was to give birth to a baby without any shame. She also made a lot of tanka poems of her child care showing her failure or loneliness honestly. Akiko's works in the Meiji period certainly reveals how faithfully she wrestled with having and taking care of her children.