著者

陶山 裕有子

出版者

物語研究会

雑誌

物語研究 (ISSN:13481622)

巻号頁・発行日

no.9, pp.1-11, 2009-03-31

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This study considers the "classic intellect" in the Insei period and discusses historical description within two texts, Okagami and the Imakagami, neither of which cites classic literature. I investigate the "classic intellect" within three waka textbooks: Kokinjochu by Katsumyo, Fukurozoshi, and Toshiyorizuino. In these textbooks, secret poetic principles are written in reference to waka language from Kokinshu, which had already become a "classic" within waka circles. In the Kokinjochu, for example, waka theory is explained in reference to Nihongi, which had nothing to do with waka. Many people in the Insei period collected and put together classic books (books about classical literature?), which is why intellectuals referred frequently to the "classic intellect." This study shows that Okagami and Imakagami, which were written in the same period, did not use the phrase "it was written in" but rather "I heard that it was written in," even if directly using the classics. Further, I show that the narrator of these texts states that anyone, including the illiterate, can understand historical description-a claim which is incompatible with the notion of the "classic intellect" being understandable only by intellectuals.