Genji Monogatari (the Tale of Genji) No Maki Mei to Waka Monogatari Seisei Ron He (Kenkyu Sosho)

[Machine Translation] The names of the volumes of The Tale of Genji were "titles" given to the author of the tale, like the titles of poems in a poetry contest. This book clarifies the process by which the names of scrolls arose from the words and titles of ancient poems, and from the names of scrolls, poems and famous scenes were created for each scroll, which were then passed on to subsequent scrolls through the medium of the poems, thus creating a longer version. This book's theory of the names of scrolls is deeply related to the issues of Hikka and historical conformity, and covers thematics, expression, and formation, and is the key to elucidating the generation of the tales. A list of ancient poems and matters from which the names of the scrolls were derived is included at the end of the book.

源氏物語の巻名は、歌合の歌題にように作者に与えられた物語の“題”であった。古来の歌のことばや歌題から巻名が生じ、巻名から巻々の歌や名場面が作られ、さらに歌を媒介として後の巻に受け継がれ長編化していった過程を明らかにする。本書の巻名論は、引歌や歴史の準拠の問題とも深く関わり、主題論、表現論、成立論に及ぶもので、物語の生成を解明する鍵となる。巻末には巻名の由来となった古歌や事柄の一覧を付した。