著者

西山 登喜

出版者

物語研究会

雑誌

物語研究 (ISSN:13481622)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, pp.106-118, 2008

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The power relationship of the person alughs at and the person laughed at surfaces by 'laughter'. The act of laughing rules the situation. Here we study again the relation between the Emperor Suzaku and Nakatada from a new angle of 'laughter'. The Emperor Suzaku laughs at under the cooperation of Nakatada. The Emperor Suzaku tries to advocate the domination of the royal prerogative by laughing, and tries to seize the family of the Kin (seven-stringed Chinese koto). On the other hand, Nakatada rejects his own playing kin. With keeping the logic of 'Matsurohanu', he makes the Emperor Suzaku laugh and then he shows his indirect submission to the Emperor Suzaku by talking about the episode to others. The two persons form strange complicity while they are convinced that the logic of each other is not distorted mutually. The Emperor Suzaku's laughter hids the rising contradiction of both. The consideration to try to utilize and controll each other while checking the other is made and resonated by 'laughter.' 'Laughter' is the expression of the mind with assuming malediction.