Filial Love and the Strange Land --Theme of the Utsuho Monogatari

Abstract

pdf『うつほ物語』は俊蔭の波斯国漂流、異郷訪問譚で始まる。異郷への想像力が琴の物語の根底に働いていることは疑えない。本稿は、折口信夫の異郷論から出発した。琴の伝授と恩愛の惑いが物語のなかで繰り返される主題であり、未生の犬宮物語を前にした緊張のもとでもまた、恩愛の惑いを生む異郷が秘琴波斯風の音の起源たりえていることを明らかにした。 “Utsuhomonogatari”（うつほ物語）starts from Toshikage’s story of drifting in Hashi-koku（波斯国）and visiting foreign countries. It is evident that the imaginations to the foreign countries works at the hidden part of the story. This article started from Ikyoron（異郷論） of Origuchi Shinobu. The instruction in playing the Koto and the feeling perplexed of the family ties are the main theme repeatedly written in the story. It is clarified that also under the tension of unborn Inumiya monogatari the foreign country which produces such a feeling can be the origin of the sound of Hikin-hashifu（秘琴波斯風）.departmental bulletin pape