Jingi-kōshiki is a book of ritual for redemption by gods generally called Jingi. It is said to be related to Shaseki-shū by Mujū, Nakatomi-no-harae-kunge, and other medieval Shinto texts. Now it is known that it has a great influence on the composition of songs in kagura or Shinto theatrical dance. Interestingly enough there are some divine beings called not Jingi but Shinmyō in Jingi-kōshiki. They were created as more omnipotent gods who can redeem even dead worshippers as well as living ones.
In Tsunokuni-myōto-ike there appears a sort of femme fatale called Ōyodo or the courtesan of Motokujō who is favored by Ashikaga-Yoshiteru but killed at the moment of treason against her master. The plot is based on Bi Gan's critical comment on King Zhou's government abused by his consort Daji in Kana-retsujo-den. In creating the bad mistress, however, Chikamatsu-Monzaemon also borrowed much from Miyoshi-bekki, in which there is the account of Yoshiteru's actual mistress named Kojijū who was killed for her excessive interference with political affairs. So it is natural to think that Ōyodo is almost literally modelled after Kojijū.
Katai Tayama pursued his naturalistic theme of instinctive satisfaction under the influence of Nietzsche's philosophy of resentment which he knew indirectly through Chogyū Takayama's aesthetics of life. But he obviously misread and even transformed it into a sort of anti-Nietzschean discourse about the redemption of the weak. The aim of this article is to explore the formation of his peculiar idea of resentment in intertextual relations to Chogyū, Roka Tokutomi, and other contemporary writers.
The aim of this article is to examine the meta-fictional function of “Tabi-no-bohimei” (1953), the third episode of the Jirō Kikuta series by Yukio Mishima. The story's meta-fictional plot prompts the readers to critically review the familiar concept of reliable narration and the form of realism itself. Furthermore it also prompts them to put into relative perspective the author's own style that he had been working on since Kamen-no-kokuhaku (1949). In this sense the episode is an important turning point in Mishima's literary career.