사이카쿠(西鶴) 우키요조시(浮世草子)에서의 『다이헤이키(太平記)』 수용 연구 ‘금전’과 관련된 표현을 중심으로

Abstract

This article investigated the appreciation and the aspect of development of Daiheiki in Ukiyojosi which is representative genre of a novel in the premodern times of Japan mainly with Saikaku’s Ukiyojosi work. In order to attract interest of new class of readers like Chonin, Saikaku used various expressions and episodes around ‘money’ which is the matter of primary concern of them in his works. As the result, Saikaku left many works which described Chonin’s economic life, and further the expression related with ‘money’ appeared in almost all the works of Saikaku. Saikaku’s concern about ‘money’ had an influence on the appreciation of Daiheiki, so in Saikaku’s Ukiyojosi the master of military strategy Kusunoki Masashige who appears in Daiheiki was combined with the word ‘Bungen’ that means ‘the rich’ with relation to ‘money’ to be born as a new coinage ‘Kusunoki Bungen’. It can be said that Saikaku is called Oranda Saikaku and artistic spirit that was to always attempt what is new and novel before others leads to the use of new words. In the premodern times of Japan, the methods of business were developed and Chonin appeared as a new class but Edo was still the times of samurais. One of matters of primary concern of the samurais was invariably wars and military science which is the military strategy that can win wars was developed. The image of Kusunoki Masashige as a strategist and a master of military strategy was broadly propagated and known to the general public through ‘Daihei Kiyomi’ at that time. Therefore, it can be said that Saikaku who was a writer outstanding in realizing the reality knew that money and military science coexisted and were a matter of concern of people, and assumed that Chonin who were interested in investment techniques most and samurai class who were alienated from actual wars as the peaceful period of Gennaenbu continued were readers, and made a newly-coined word that is ‘Kusunoki bungen’ as an expression that can contain these two at the same time.