『사라시나닛키』의 색

Abstract

This paper examines the author's color sensibility and aesthetic consciousness of color, focusing on scenes in which color expressions are depicted in 『Sarashina Nikki』. In general, the early stage shows a lot of vivid and strong coloring, and as it progresses to the later stage, the number of colors decreases and the tendency toward dull, uncertain, and achromatic colors increases. In that scene, we could catch a glimpse of the author's aesthetic sense of achromatic color through the natural landscape of hazy fog, white snow, a bright moon, and moonless darkness. In 『Sarashina Nikki』, there aremany night scenes and strong dark images, but in reality, there are more examples of brightness than dark, and white is the color most often used in monochrome expressions in 『Sarashina Nikki』. The meaning of white is also the color of the clothing worn by priests in Shinto, and it may not be unrelated to the color of the white clothing worn by Genji in his daily life in the "Genji Monogatari," a monogatari world that the author longed for his whole life. The title of this work, Sarashina, was a white image to the people of Kyoto, and white is the aesthetic consciousness of the white image of the people of Kyoto at that time, as well as the author's aesthetic consciousness of color.