Komachi Monogatari
Komachi Monogatari (小町物がたり) is a Japanese otogi-zōshi in two volumes, composed late in the Muromachi period or the beginning of the early modern period (late 16th or 17th centuries).
Date, genre and sources
[edit]Komachi Monogatari was composed some time between the end of the Muromachi period and the beginning of the Edo period.[1]
It is a work of the otogi-zōshi genre.[1] It is one of a large number of works, the so-called Komachi-mono (小町物),[1] that draw on the legends surrounding the poet Ono no Komachi,[2] a category that also includes Komachi Sōshi, Komachi Uta-arasoi, Kamiyo Komachi and Tamazukuri Monogatari.[3] It specifically combines the dokuro-densetsu (髑髏伝説), legends about Komachi's skull being found in a grassy field,[1] hyakuya-gayoi (百夜通い), legends that the courtier Fukakusa no Shōshō tried and tragically failed to visit her for one hundred nights,[1] and sotoba-komachi.[1] It is unique among the Komachi-mono for its setting in the Rendaino (蓮台野) and the appearance of the poet-monk Saigyō.[1]
Takashi Fujii, in his article on the work for the Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten, identified the Noh play Sotoba Komachi as a source for the work.
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Fujii 1983, p. 665.
- ^ Fujii 1983, p. 665; Arikawa 1983, p. 665.
- ^ Arikawa 1983, p. 665.
Works cited
[edit]- Arikawa, Mikio (1983). "Komachi Sōshi". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 2. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 665. OCLC 11917421.
- Fujii, Takashi (1983). "Komachi Monogatari". Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 2. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 665. OCLC 11917421.