韓日宮廷女流文学における教育の研究

Abstract

Women's literature in Korea and Japan were created along with the invention of their own letters, Hangul or Gana. Until then, women were excluded from the enjoyment of literacy. This study examined that how women writers, pioneers of the court literature, were disciplined, what the court culture which has been depicted by them was, how did it work for the theme of their literary works, tales, diaries, and miscellanies. In Heian court culture, lovers courted each other with poetry, and their relationships were contingent upon the sensitivity of the poems and the beauty of the writer's calligraphy. So comprehensive appreciation and recitation of poetry was the essential talent for aristocrats. Playing musical instruments was also a basic ability of cultured person, and some specific musical instruments signified features of the characters. Women writers in Heian period were well-educated in terms of waka, music, and calligraphy. Based on Buddhism and Shinto, they conducted their life considerably free with romance, reading, and all the events around them. Such manners and attitudes produced motifs that affects human relations or the theme of the literature. On the other hand, women's court literature of Joseon Dynasty were written on the basis of Confucianism along with Buddhism and Shamanism. Though women writers of Joseon Dynasty were fettered by strict customs of the court and Confucianism, they recorded historical events and the prosperity and decay of the era.