著者

大田垣 裕子

出版者

プール学院大学

雑誌

プール学院大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13426028)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, pp.1-10, 2012-12

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If you think of the relationship between walking and writing in the Meiji era, probably DoppoKunikida(1871-1908) will most likely to come to your mind. Among the writers at that time, Doppo was the first to walk around the suburb of Tokyo called Musashino and on the banks of the Sorachi River in Hokkaido, which was a very unusual thing to do for ordinary people then. Here I tried to make clear how he was influenced by the ideas and works of modern Europeanpedestrian literature, which is said to be started by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), and handeddown to European Romantic artists like William Wordsworth (1770-1850). The most well-known works that depict the nature which Doppo experienced while walkingare his short novels titled ` Musashino' and `The Banks of the Sorachi River.' I exclusively dealtwith the former reading, closely focusing on tactile images including auditory images used thereand considered how modern European pedestrian literature was introduced to Japan in the Meijiera.