著者

徐 送迎

出版者

高崎経済大学経済学会

雑誌

高崎経済大学論集 (ISSN:04967534)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.44, no.2, pp.97-113, 2001-09

著者

徐 送迎

出版者

国文学研究資料館

雑誌

国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:03877280)

巻号頁・発行日

no.25, pp.57-66, 2002-03-01

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The poem by the emperor Yûryaku which adorns the beginning of the Man'yôshû has long been a subject of debate amongst scholars, each taking literary, historic, anthropologic, and other stances. The question of why Emperor Yûryaku's poem appears at the head of the Man'yôshû has yet to be answered, with the scholarly community still in a state of “the humane seeing humanity and the learned seeing knowledge”.When looking over past research on the subject, numerous interpretations of the poem itself have been made, but on the issue of the poem being based on folklore and difficult to attribute to Emperor Yûryaku himself there is little debate. In other words, the poem is thought to have been attributed to him at a later time. Therefore, for what reason the poem was attributed to the emperor is at the heart of the problem. Of the majority of thinking theories surrounding Emperor Yûryaku’s “personal power” and “spiritual power” have received the most attention, each looking to solve this mystery from the standpoint of politics and literature.This presentation, taking into account the large influence Chinese literature has had on that of Japan, will examine the emperor Yûryaku's poem by comparing it with the first poem of the Shi-Jing (Shikyô), which occupies the same position in Chinese literature as the Man'yôshû in Japan, from the standpoint of research influenced by the French school of thought.Through this comparison, similarities in both content and phrasing have become apparent. It is possible then that these similarities are not a coincidence, but show that the creator of Emperor Yûryaku's poem was influenced by the first poem of the Shi-Jing and possibly the commentaries in Maoshi Guxunzhuan (Môshi Kokunden) and Maoshi Zhuanjian (Môshi Densen). The likelihood that the Man'yôshû, completed in the eighth century, had behind its making a political motive based on the establishment of a federal government based on the ritsuryô system and a desire to stand on an equal footing with China has already been pointed out. With this in mind, it is also likely that the selection of the emperor Yûryaku’s poem for the first in the Man'yôshû was a result of the creator being well versed in Chinese classics, consciously attempting to include and imitate elements of the Shi-Jing in the Man'yôshû and attempting to introduce and accept Confucian philosophy. This spring love poem said to be the “start of man’s humanity” shows the brazen, positive attitude of the ritsuryô nation and its ideal of “great unification”.