著者

鈴木 貴子

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.119-130, 2008

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Paying special attention to those expressions related to "tears" which manifest themselves whenever Toshikage's daughter thinks of her own past in Utuho Monogatari, or Tale of the Hollow Tree, I have made explicit in this paper the relationship between Toshikage's daughter's prosperity and her memory of the past, both of which are built upon and virtually inextricable from her "tears". I have also further reexamined the relations within her family as Inumiya, who is initiated into the traditionally inherited family secrets of the art of playing kin, or seven-stringed, semicylindrical plucking zither. From her infancy, she finds herself unable to genuinely share the joy derived from her performance; and herein is expressed her deviation from approved "tears" the Toshikage's kin family could provide. The discussion of this paper. therefore, lies in the attempt to explore a new aspect of Utuho Monogatari by way of giving an analysis to seemingly detailed expressions such as Inumiya's "tears". Unlike the logic which permeates the overall structure of a summary, I have approached this story from Inumiya' s logic that is in some measure displaced and detached.