川端康成 「十六歲日記」的作品解說－與昭和初期 「兒童作文」的關連性

Self-commentary of“Diary of Sixteen-years-old”: The relevance to early Showa era’s“Children’s article composition”

「十六歲日記」為二十七歲的川端康成將自己在十六歲時寫的日記加上「說明」與「後記」後，於『文藝春秋』大正十四年八月號與九月號發表的作品。曾說過「不喜歡評論自己作品」的川端，卻在大正十四年至昭和四十五年之間發表了十六篇的相關作品解說。先行論會從中挑選幾篇文章來分析其特色，卻從未提及川端在寫這些作品解說時所關心的事物。因此，在本論文中，論者首先分析這十六篇作品解說的特徵。昭和二年時曾說過忘記此篇作品存在的川端，自昭和十三年的作品解說開始，便將此作品定位為「處女作」之一，並強調「少年單純的寫生」是本作品最重要的特徵。昭和十年前後非常喜歡閱讀兒童作文的川端，針對兒童作文進行評論時也常使用到「寫生」這個詞彙。而此一詞彙也出現在昭和十三年的「十六歲日記」的解說中。基於此點，本論將考察昭和十年代時川端最關心的「兒童作文」並釐清川端為何會重新評價「十六歲日記」中自己（少年）的「寫生」的理由。

”Diary of Sixteen-years-old” is a work which was Yasunari Kawabata edited his own diary of sixteen-years-old and added his ”explaining” and ”postscript” and published in 1925. Also, ”I do not like to talk about my works” Kawabata said and he issued 16 chapters of self-commentary on ”Diary of Sixteen-years-old”, from ”Diary of Sixteen-years-old” was published in 1925 to 1970. Many previous studies are choosing several Kawabata's his self-commentaries and explaining some features of those commentaries. They do not mention what were the most things Kawabata concerned.In this paper, first author will analysis the 16 chapters of self-commentary on ”Diary of Sixteen-years-old”. And also pick up a point of view about the ”Sketch” of ”Diary of Sixteen-years-old” which is a work that he said ”I almost forgot I have wrote this work” in 1927, but he still placed this work as his first work in 1938 when he started to write the self-commentary. He emphasized that one of the most significant features of this work is the ”Sketch” which was a young boy just write down his life obediently. Second, cause of in 1930's Kawabata was most interested in ”Children's article composition” and the word ”Sketch” was often used in his self-commentary .So it could be clear up the cause of why Kawabata used the word ”Sketch” on commented his own work and others children's works.