「賦得」の意味について

Abstract

Poems entitled "賦--得--" or "賦得--" are often found among Six Dynasty poetry. The author induced from various examples that the word "fu" 賦 in these cases limits its original meaning, "to versify, " to a particular meaning, "to write verse about a certain species of objects with colleague poets." And "tê" 得 means "to get a particular object as his part from the species." If an example be given, "when verse is written about instruments, I am requested to write about the flute." The interpretation of some scholars who read the character "fu" as "to be given an object as his theme" is erroneous, because such a meaning is not involved in "fu, " but rather in "tê." Another reading is also erroneous which reads "fu" as "to write verse so as to include the given title in the lines."