Japanese Literature

Online ISSN : 2424-1202
Print ISSN : 0386-9903

Browse

Search
Browse

All issues

Volume 43, Issue 2

Displaying 1-27 of 27 articles from this issue

Download citation

Show all abstracts

[title in Japanese]

Article type: Cover
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages Cover1-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_Cover1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (39K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Cover
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages Cover2-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_Cover2

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (39K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages App1-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_App1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (63K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages App2-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_App2

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (63K)
Narrative and "Rumor" : Of "Rumors" Concerning Ukifune(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Toru Ando

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 1-13
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

In the narrative world that constitutes an information society, "rumors" exist as internal media that self-reflexively reveals the characteristics of the narrative as media. I attempt to extract the situation transmitted by rumors out of the paradoxical structure of the "Kagerou" volume of The Tales of the Genji, in which "concealment" becomes precisely a "revelation." By focusing on the fact that wherever they are heard, rumors are always spoken by, and transmitted anytime to, others, I will explore the precariousness of Ukifune's centrality as a subject. At the same time, I will draw an attention to the forcefulness of the narrator who constructs such a subversive narrative that can annhilate a power structure. One might say that "rumors" mediate the inside and outside of the narrative.

View full abstract

Download PDF (1166K)
The Town under the Starry Sky : The "Knowledge" that Crosses the Border or "The Book of Future" as a Media(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Toru Fukazawa

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 14-23
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_14

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

The insatiable desire for "Knowledge" represented by Fujiwara Yorinaga and Fujiwara Shinzei derives from the undeniable aspiration to comprehend turgid conditions of their time from a higher standpoint and discern the courses of the events. This wish to knon the future was consequently collectivized in the text called "Miraigi" (The Book of Future), to be shared by many. It was in short the Japanese version of "Shikiisetsu ". But was there really "The Book of Future" written by Shotokutaishi? Contemplating the strange "passion" that ceaselessly produced the imaginary text that may not exist at all, one starts to see clearly the peculiar nature of the period of insei. There are many variegated problems, including the commentaries on Nihongi, excavation of Yamatai, and different interpretations of The Life of Shotokutaishi. These problems are intertwined in the historical condition of the insei period, defying a simplistic formula. In this essay, therefore, I have merely attempted to trace roughly the process in which the discourses of stars as media transmitting the heavenly will to the earthly life are assimilated in the context of a narrative, to constitute an imaginary genre called "The Book of Future." I regret to say that I have only reached the entrance of the entire problem.

View full abstract

Download PDF (1005K)
The Structure and Method of uta-ai (poetry improvisation match) in the Period of insei(the rule of exemperors) : a Critique of a View that Explains waka in terms of its Function of Exorcism(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Hitoshi Nishiki

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 24-33
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_24

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

In the period of insei, utaai, or utakai, was frequently held. What were the reasons for such demands for utaai? The rules of utaai include various prohibitions. Utaai, therefore, constitutes a space that prohibits and "excludes" something and reveals what should be included. That "exclusive" function, however, is not fully effective, letting the heterogeneous "invade" the space. In addition, in utaai, ancient and new poems are always presented in pairs. Considering these two points, I have attempted to criticize the accepted view in the history of waka, to open a new horizon of speculation.

View full abstract

Download PDF (998K)
The Queen's Media(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Yasuhiro Uchida

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 34-42
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_34

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

[in Japanese]

View full abstract

Download PDF (834K)
The Legend of Hirai Gonpachi and the Cases of Hand-Written Documents and Printed Texts(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Seiji Konita

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 43-53
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_43

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

I will compare, among the prose work representing the late Edo period, the factuai documents distributed in the form of hand-written document and the printed fictional text concerning the legend of Hirai Gonpachi, with special attention to characters' relations ane plot, in order to contemplate the specific characters of each genre or media. I believe that from such a comparison, one discerns, not only the standardization of a text through the printing of handwritten documents, but also a decisive transformation of the relations among the author, the work, and the reader.

View full abstract

Download PDF (960K)
The Significance of Media in Literary History : as a kind of Problematic(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Sadami Suzuki

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 54-60
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_54

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

For literature, the primary media is language, as well as style in the more specified sense of the word. The secondary media is publishing. Novel is a literary genre that emerged with the development of media. For this reason, its own development cannot be discussed without reference to media. In the Meiji period, with dynamic transformations in publishing, the problems concerning novel and media are especially discernible. This paper attempts to present a group of problems, in order to construct a highly probable hypothesis.

View full abstract

Download PDF (667K)
The Media in 1930s, or the Problems of Literary Argument and Silent Reading : a Critical Reflection on the Theories of Oya Soichi and Okuma Nobuyuki(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Hideto Tsuboi

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 61-70
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_61

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

A Theory of Liteerary Strategy, by Oya Soichi, and An Economics for Literature and The Japanes Aspect of Literature, by Okuma Nobuyuki, were contemporaneous with Walter Benjamin's theories of media. Despite their progressive treatment of readership, their theories of media as well as literature contain an aspect that repressively functions toward ecricure, assuming the inferiority of the method of "printed literature" in comparison with the new media including film. By focusing on the problem of the "silent reading" enforced by literature in 1930s, I have attempted to consider the problem of "topic" and "technique" in literary production, grappled by Oya, as well as the theory of the sequel form of literature, presented by Okuma, in order to reflect critically on the presence of the above-mentioned repressiveness.

View full abstract

Download PDF (1023K)
The Narrative Technique of Genki no Sakadachi by Miki Takashi : The Media called "I"(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Takeo Miyakawa

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 71-79
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_71

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Show abstractHide abstract

Miki Takashi's Genki no Sakadachi was published as a children's book in 1986 by Chikuma Shobo. A collection of loosely-related short stories with Shigeru, a sixth-grader in 1947, as hero, it can be regarded as one of the novelist's autobiographical writings. The eight collected stories are narrated by the "I." This "I" is at once the boy Shigeru at the time of 1947 and the present author. I have attempted to contemplate the significance of Genki no Sakadachi both as a children's book and as part of Miki Takashi's overall work.

View full abstract

Download PDF (714K)
Requiem and Fetishism : the Modernity of Takamura Kotaro's Lemon Aika(Reading)

Naoki Oishi

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 82-87
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_82

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (592K)
Miyuki Sato, Ayatari and Akinari: a Critique of the Eighteenth Century kokugaku(studies of Japanese literature)

Shunji Yamada

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 88-89
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_88

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (280K)
Shumei Rin, Nakano Shigeharu: a Continuous Conversion

Tadashi Ito

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 90-91
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_90

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (284K)
The Poetics of Possibility: A Poesie of Genius by Ban-ya Natsuishi

Hirofumi Wada

Article type: Article
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 91-93
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_91

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (379K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Bibliography
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 94-95
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_94

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (131K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 96-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_96

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (31K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 97-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_97

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (84K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Bibliography
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 101-98
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_101

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (148K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 102-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_102_1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (66K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 102-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_102_2

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (66K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 103-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_103_1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (73K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 103-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_103_2

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (73K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 104-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_104_1

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (64K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Appendix
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 104-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_104_2

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (64K)
[title in Japanese]

Article type: Cover
1994 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages Cover3-
Published: February 10, 1994
Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2017

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.43.2_Cover3

JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

Download PDF (45K)

feedback

Top

Register with J-STAGE for free!