著者
魯 惠卿
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.21, pp.37-54, 1998-10-01

Izumi Kyoka based "Tsunbo no Isshin " on his late father Kiyotsugu, and the depiction it gives us of Kyoka's state of mind in the wake of his father's death makes the work an important one. The author's original text, with corrections added by Ozaki Koyo, is among the archives of Keio Gijuku Library. Ozaki's corrections are numerous, but no research has yet been done on the nature of these corrections. A comparison of Kyoka's uncorrected hand-written text with the published corrected version is essential if we are to understand Kyoka's original intentions, as well as the process by which the work subsequently developed.Ozaki's corrections range from punctuation, and kana added to Chinese characters, to alterations to the content of the work itself. I shall concentrate on the latter, which may be characterized in two ways. Firstly, changes were made to the nature of the narrative. "Tsunbo no Isshin" is a first-person narrative, but the narrator (yo) is also the doctor supervising "Isshin" who is a craftsman. While Kyoka's hand-written text describes the psychology and behaviour of the narrator, who sympathizes with Isshin and his family, the version corrected by Ozaki tends to delete much of this, simplifying the relationships between characters. In Kyoka's text, as well as a portrayal of Isshin, there is also detailed description of the tender attachment between Okoma and the narrator, and the filial devotion of Okoma's younger brother. By contrast, Ozaki's corrected version concentrates mainly on Isshin's behaviour and his attitude to his work in the period leading up to his death. Ozaki's decision to change the original title of the work, "Kame no Saiku" to "Tsunbo no Isshin", illustrates this.I would like to consider the above points, and to elucidate what it was that Kyoka attempted to describe in his original text, his feelings for his late father, and the processes of the work's formation.