著者
柳田 直美 Naomi Yanagida
出版者
学習院大学外国語教育研究センター
雑誌
言語 文化 社会 = Language, cultute and society (ISSN:13479105)
巻号頁・発行日
no.13, pp.1-29, 2015-03

This article surveys the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi 綱吉, considered as “an absolute monarch”, or in the opinion of Kaempfer, as “a good and just, wise sovereign”. When Tsunayoshi inherited his position in 1680 an era of peace and stability had begun. He therefore changed policy from ruling by military authority to attaching greater importance to matters of etiquette and hierarchical order.During the transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasties in early 17th century, when there was no strict division between Buddhism and Confucianism in China, rituals to do good deeds were widely organized under the guidance of Confucian intellectuals. Japanese versions of morality books reflecting this tradition were published around the beginning of Tsunayoshi's government.According to one view the ultimate purpose in books of morality was to make citizens supportive of an ideal absolute government. Tsunayoshi, who was devoted to Confucian thought, considered that the cultivation of “benevolence 仁心” and “mercy 慈悲” was the utmost “good”, and through his “policy of compassion for living things 生類憐み政策” he made people respect life and accumulate “good deeds”.Tsunayoshi adopted Confucianism as a ceremonial doctrine to achieve cultural supremacy in opposition to the court. However, when we consider his policy of compassion we realise that Tsunayoshi was also influenced by the Confucian idea of retribution for good and bad deeds that appears in Chinese morality books.
著者
堀内 ゆかり Yukari Horiuchi
出版者
学習院大学外国語教育研究センター
雑誌
言語 文化 社会 = Language, cultute and society (ISSN:13479105)
巻号頁・発行日
no.19, pp.120-147, 2021-03

「フランス語ができるようになったら何をしたいですか?」、と毎年初回の授業アンケートで学生にきいている。「旅行に行ったときに使ってみたい」「フランス語圏の人と話してみたい」という答えとともに、数は多くないがかならず「絵本を読んでみたい」という声がある。これをきっかけに、教材として使えそうなフランスの絵本を探してきた。『星の王子さま』を挙げる学生も時々いるが、この本のフランス語は意外とむずかしい。紆余曲折1 を経て『ぞうのババール』にたどり着いた。本稿では『ぞうのババール』の原書および日本での翻訳について、この本を教材として使う実践について述べていきたい。