日露戦争開戦期の新体詩研究 - 雑誌『太陽』を中心に -

Abstract

In the present article, I analyse the new-style poem during the opening period of the Russo-Japanese War by taking a particular look at the magazine Taiyo. Firstly, the general magazine Taiyo includes the new-style poem by Suimei Kawai during the opening period of the Russo-Japanese War. In the poem Seeing off the Russian Minister, he emphasised that both countries are ‘civilised countries’ and prayed for the safe return of the minister, Rosen. In the poem The Enemy Ship Has Come, however, the author warns the arrival of enemy ship in connection with the Mongol Invasion, and the work served as the propaganda for people’s hostility and rising of their fighting spirit. Secondly, the magazine Taiyo contains military poems, haiku, Chinese poetry, and literature critique. In his four military poems, Chiyosaburō Takeda defined Russia as the mutual enemy of the world or the enemy of humanity, and he emphasised that the war was a ‘holy war’. Also, Tateki Ōwada was asked to create military poems. Finally, in the critique The Literary World in the Wartime, Keigetsu Ōmachi promoted the shift to the ‘great literature’ that reflects the ‘current situation’. An illustrative example of this is Tateki Ōwada’s poem, Conquering Russia, where ‘正法’ was referred to as ‘正名’, and ‘正法の賊’ as ‘人道の敵’. Further the ‘ideal image of a woman as a home front’ was constructed and established through the poems The Mother of a Soldier and The Wife of a Soldier, such as an ‘admirable’ mother who does not deplore the sacrifice of her son and a wife who maintains her family on behalf of her husband.