「源氏物語」の教育学的考察

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Since the time of Norinaga Motoori, the most noted critic of the Tale of Genji in the Edo Period, who said about the book that he could not imagine what purpose it was written for, no one has dared to answer the question, “What had induced the author, Lady Murasaki, to write it?”
If it is assumed, however, that Lady Murasaki wrote it as a textbook to be used in educating Chugu Shoshi, daughter of Michinaga Fujiwara and, later, one of the wives of Emperor Ichijo, to be a refined lady, the structure and the implication of the whole book would be cleared up.
The aim of Lady Murasaki was to make it possible for young Chugu Shoshi, who was to be the mother of an emperor in future, to see the inner life of the people and to realize the ideal types of love and motherhood through this book, in which the author presented various psychological aspects of human life.