恋の贈答歌における刹那表現の役割について －源氏物語と蜻蛉日記を中心に－

Abstract

This research attempts to interpret the meaning of the momentary expression that includes “present” in “The Tale of Genji” and “The Kagero Diary”. In this study, I focused on the scene where typical gift-giving songs of love are exchanged because I focused on the cultural ritual aspect of the act of communication. In other words, it is based on the viewpoint that the original gift-giving song was born in a place where the extraordinary ritualization of the marriage proposal and love process was required. Therefore, the focus of the question is whether the tense words “this morning,” “`today,” and “now” used in the scriptures as cultural rituals can be positioned as love words. At the beginning of love, as I anxiously wondered, ‘Can we meet now? Can we meet today?’ and as I made every effort to create opportunities to meet, fleeting expressions proved useful. Then, during marriage ceremonies or in the process of love, when expressing heartache through poetry like the ‘Kinuginu-uta’, momentary emotions were brought to the forefront. Furthermore, in moments of parting as spouses or lovers, or in extraordinary situations, when pledging eternal feelings or showcasing the pinnacle of compassion, the ephemeral nature revealed itself. “The ‘Izumi Shikibu Diary’ constructs its own unique world of expression, and while I couldn’t find a similar ephemerality in ‘The Tale of Genji’ and ‘The Kgero Diary’ I was able to confirm a certain level of commonality in the expression of momentariness when looking at it from a broader perspective of romantic exchange.