著者

松原 一義

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.7, pp.53-72, 1984-03-01

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The age in which the center of political influence shifted from the Oda-Toyotomi sphere to that of Tokugawa Ieyasu saw the reins to power change hands a number of times. And as a rule, the lives of the men who lived through these times of transition were equally kaleidoscopic. One such man was Imadegawa Harusue (ro Kikutei Harusue), a noble who, along with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, maneuvered at will at court and in the world of politics during the decade 1585-95.Now if Harusue had simply been a man of political influence, and not active in the literary arts, there would be no reason to mention his name in the history of Japanese letters. But the fact of the matter is that he was quite involved in the practice and study of literature, as the following pieces of attested evidence suggest:1. He was trained in the composition of waka by the Lord Sankō (Sanjōnishi Sane'eda), was himself one of Matsunaga Teitoku's teachers, and has left behind a considerable number of poetic compositions.2. A number of his compositions in linked verse also survive.3. He was active in several other artistic pursuits as well, and a leading authority on court and ceremonial precedent (yūshoku kojitsu 有職故実); several such philological works of his survive.4. He had occasion to associate with Satomura Jōha and Hosokawa Yūsai, and shared with the latter what we might call a friendship in the pursuit of elegant refinement.5. One of his daughters married the Regent Hidetsugu; she was known as Ichi no dai, and is the heroine of the Hidetsugu monogatari 秀次物語(also known as Kanpaku-dono monogatari 関白殿物語).6. Harusue copied a manuscript of the Yumeji monogatari 夢路物語(also known as Utatane no sōshi うたたねの草紙). cf. my article "The Yumeji monogatari in the Tawa Series: Reproduced Text with Commentary, "Kokubungaku, no. 96 (December, 1982). (「多和叢書『夢路物語』翻刻と解説」,「国文学攷」第96号,昭和57.12) In spite of all of this, however, any treatment of Harusue to date has been piecemeal. Consequently, the present paper will trace the ups and downs of Harusue's eventful life, and attempt to characterize what is special about both his literary output and his life, by referring to the following works and collections of documents:Taionki 戴恩記Jurakudaigyōkōki 聚楽第行幸記Hidetsugu monogatari 秀次物語Shishaku Mōri Moto'o-shi shozō monjo 子爵毛利元雄氏所蔵文書Kikutei Harusue kaishi eisō 菊亭晴季懐紙詠草Tenshō-Bunroku hyaku'in 天正文禄百韻Kōen Tsugi-uta 公宴続歌Eiroku gannen nikki 永禄元年日記