中世日本の「戦後」 ―『増鏡』を中心に―

Abstract

“Masukagami” is a historical story depicting the Japanese medieval Kamakura era. In this paper I examined the time the war ended in the first half of the middle ages. Two volumes “Fujigoromo” “Mikami-Yama” are equivalent to that period. These volumes has been located after the Jōkyū war. Nobility was overwhelmingly defeated by samurai in that war. I have defined this period as the “post-war in medieval Japan.” During this time, national war was over, and aristocrat regime have sifted to samurai regime. In this paper, I investigated how did this literary works (written by the nobility) depict this transition. The narrative does not consider historical fact directly. Critics also does not exist. The author has followed the way of traditional literary works. He represented the historical facts vaguely. On one occasion, the author might not recognize simply. But at other times, he chose that method consciously. Two cases are mixed. I think this recognition of the past is related to the transition to the samurai regime from dynasty. This paper dealing with the valley between the war period and the stable period of the Kamakura period. Its historical significance is never small. However, there is no paper discussed the period in connection with the literature directly. This paper is positioned as a beginning of that study.