日本書紀古訓における父親を表す語彙に関して

Abstract

In 'Kokun' in Nihonshoki there exist plural vocabularies designating the same meaning, and there are cases in which those vocabularies show differences in their uses and descriptive contents, and, among them, kinship vocabulary present itself as the most prominent example due to the documentary specialty of Nihonshoki. The present paper tries to study on "カソ"(kaso) and "チチ"(chichi) which designate "father". As its research data, considering the fact that "カソ" only appears in the documents related to Nihonshoki, they had been limited to 7 ancient transcripts of Nihonshoki, each of whose use of vocabulary and descriptive content were mainly dealt with. In "カソ", consequently, the heavenly-sovereign system examples are 45 among 124, but, on the whole, they present themselves in various descriptive contents, that we can see that "カソ" is a fundamental 'kokun'. Comparing with that, "チチ" shows fewer examples, without any example at all in the heavenly-sovereign system, and sometimes shows the use of brotherhood the use of which was not shown in the case of "カソ", that it exhibits a certain relationship with "ハハ" of the previous paper. When we conclude correlating those two points of view in this manner, we can see that "father" was not subdivided into plural vocabularies for its importance for distinct clarification is low, "カソ" was chosen for the fundamental vocabulary, and "チチ" is, different from other documents, used as a supporting vocabulary which supplements in the parts that "カソ" takes charge of. From this we can draw the possibility that those two vocabularies were, though being a small number, distinguished on a intended purpose.