『만요슈』의 매화가 고찰

Abstract

This study focuses on Waka singing Japanese apricot flowers to understand characteristics of poems of flowers of Japanese apricot in Manyoshu. The Japanese apricot flowers are originally from China and they date back to 8th Century A.D. . and many Many Japanese writers loved it just as Chinese writers did. Historically, poems of Japanese apricot flowers had been influenced by Chinese poems. Japanese writers of the era accepted literature style of Biào you méi’ in the Book of Odes and Méi huā luò in Pozo and developed their own style, with their original Japanese emotions. In Manyoshu, flowers of apricot were used to describe proposal of marriage. Furthermore, the full bloom of this flower was interpreted as the maturity of women, an important element to enhance the meaning of marriage proposal. The eighth and tenth chapter of Manyoshu include the songs of four seasons. Through the study, the researcher discovered the spring songs of Waka. These two chapters mainly includes Xuězhōngméi and full bloom of apricot flowers while the winter songs mainly deals with Méi huā luò.