코로나19 시기 일본전통시가의 ‘좌(座)’의 위기와 대응 : 『호스트 만요슈(ホスト万葉集)』(2020)를 중심으로

Abstract

Unlike natural disasters, COVID-19 is a social disaster that is popular around the world, and its impact is not limited to a specific region or a specific group. The reality is that we have all experienced COVID-19 as parties and are still not free from the risk of infectious diseases. COVID-19 controls our lives and has turned the daily lives we have enjoyed for granted into extraordinary ones, and the case of traditional Japanese cities was no exception. In particular, as face-to-face meetings were banned, all meetings and events in traditional Japanese poets as well as regular meetings and private meetings, which were held regularly, were postponed or suspended. In this way, in the absence of creative spaces for traditional Japanese poets, it was online ‘座(Jwa)’ that emerged as a new alternative. The rise of online ‘Jwa’ during the COVID-19 period was no different from the active response of literature to the crisis of disaster. In particular, Host Manyoshu, which contains tankas from the ‘Online tanka poetry meeting’ during the COVID-19 period, proved the possibility that traditional Japanese poets can exist with only online ‘座’. In this sense, COVID-19 can be said to have brought about a spatial expansion of the dual structure of offline and online, not a reduction of the ‘座’ of traditional Japanese poets.