著者

住岡 英毅

出版者

大阪青山大学『大阪青山大学紀要』編集員会

雑誌

大阪青山大学紀要 (ISSN:18833543)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.29-47, 2013

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Rakugo is one of Japanese traditional performing arts with a long history of more than 300 years. It faithfully reflects the spiritual aspects of Japanese people and society with all sorts of Japanese personalities and philosophies, ethics and morals, and every detail of dialogical mutual communication(timing of words,etc.). In this respect, Rakugo, along with other Japanese traditional performing arts such as Kabuki, Noh and Kyogen, plays an important role in the Japanese traditional culture.Rakugo stories convey a multitude of feelings and wisdoms, such as happiness, sadness, empathy, ethics, pathos, healing, etc., in the human lives of ordinary people. During every Rakugo performance, a unique atmosphere is created in the hall through empathy between the storyteller(Rakugo artist) and the listeners(Rakugo audience), and such atmospheres have helped the Rakugo art transform itself continuously. In other words, these unique Rakugo atmospheres created through dialogical communication between the teller and audience has contributed to the development of Rakugo art. This is one of the intrinsic characteristics of Rakugo, unseen in other traditional Japanese performing arts.The present treatise intends to extract educational elements out of such intrinsic characteristics of Rakugo, interpret them from the educational point of view, and explore various possibilities of utilizing Rakugo culture in the field of education The purposes of these considerations are: (1)to visualize unintended educational functions, i.e., potential character-building functions, of Rakugo, and (2)open up a new field of education by incorporating the unintended educational potential of Rakugo into intentional educational curriculums. Thus, the present treatise schemes to open a new door to the practice of education through Rakugo culture by exploring a possible association between Rakugo culture and pedagogy.The present treatise first takes up two Rakugo stories, "An alum apprentice (Myouban decchi)" and "Praising kids(Kohome)", to analyze their ideas of human beings by focusing on how the main characters such as the apprentice, the husband, and the fool, are depicted and how they are performed by the storyteller. Then their educational human relations through which the stories intend to convey their views on human beings are discussed Secondly, the Rakugo's concepts on ethics(morals)are discussed by analyzing the sinfulness of humans observed in "A parent-child teahouse(Oyako-jyaya)" and "A stable fire(Umaya-kaji)", humanness seen in "A case over killing a deer(Shika-seidan)", and satire expressed in "Sasaki's rulings(Sasaki-sabaki)". Then, how such analysis may make the innermost of morality visible is discussed, although the present-day's moral education has been failing to clarify it.Thirdly, the communication through dialogues between the storyteller and audience is taken up, and discussed to show how it becomes to show educational potentiality.The above three viewpoints constitute the present introductory treatise on education through Rakugo culture.