Kodai Ka Tatoe Hyogen Shi

[Machine Translation] Is waka a metaphor or not? This question is to reexamine what is a waka poem and what is a metaphor. The answer that all waka poems are metaphors, or the answer that waka poems lack metaphors, depends on the definition of each, and it is difficult to say that either is appropriate, given the various ways in which waka poems are expressed. The introductions, figures of speech, and words in waka poetry, which have been regarded as techniques unique to waka poetry, as well as the personification method, which has been shunned in waka poetry, cannot be considered without the relationship to metaphor. What this book attempts to do is to trace the relationship between waka poetry and metaphor in the history of waka expression from the viewpoint of "uta-metaphor," with a focus on the Manyoshu and Kokinshu collections.

和歌は比喩か否か?この問は、和歌とは何か、比喩とは何かをあらためて問い直すものである。和歌はすべて比喩であるという答えも、和歌には比喩が乏しいという答えも、それぞれの定義如何であり、その表現のさまざまなありようからは、どちらも適切とは言いがたい。和歌独自の技法とされてきた序詞や見立てあるいは歌語についても、逆に和歌では敬遠されたという擬人法も、比喩との関係を抜きには考えられない。本著が愚直に試みたのは、万葉集と古今集を中心に据えて、和歌と比喩がどのように切り結んだかを、「歌喩」という観点から、その表現史において辿ることである。