英文摘要 |
The rule by warriors and repeated civil wars characterize the Medieval Japan. In that era, this background brought about many historical descriptions: so-called 'gunki-monogatari (war tales)', such as ''Heike Monogatari'' and ''Taiheiki'', or ''Soga Monogatari'' (The tale of the Soga Brothers) that follows them, ''Tsurugi no maki'' (''The Chapter of the Swords'') and so on. In these works, the legends about various swords succeeded in each houses of samurais particularly attract our eyes. The swords described in above texts are not only the simple weapons, but also more specific items that sometimes show us mysterious power. Furthermore, they are succeeded from one to another, generation after generation, symbolizing the authority of samurais itself, or prescribing the history woven up by the activities of warriors. This paper will focalize on the aspects of these, especially to ''Kanabon-Soga Monogatari'', and by analyzing their narrative descriptions, attempt to make clear how each of texts in this era were produced, or what kind of relationships mutually they had. And it also aims to extract the representation of properness of the warrior rule, and the historical consciousness in this time, which was different from the ones of those days when Japan had been governed by the Emperor more directly. |