隱れたる批評家 : 淸田儋叟の批評的業績

Abstract

A Japanese Confucian of the late Tokugawa period, Kiyota wrote good Chinese poems and had a profound interest in Chinese colloquial novels. He wrote a criticism of the Shui-hu-chuan (All Men Are Brothers) in his Kujakuro-bunju, and was likewise editor of the Japanese reedition of the Chao-shih-pei 照世杯, a collection of Ch'ing dynasty short stories. The author emphasizes the neglect by modern scholars of Japanese literature of this genre of literary criticism stemming from Confucian sources. The opinions of Kiyota need to be reexamined because of the importance of such opinions on the development of Japanese literature.