搜玉小集について

Abstract

The Sou-yü hsiao-chi, one of the ten surviving T'ang-jen hsüan T'ang-shih 唐人選唐詩 (Anthologies of T'ang Poetry Compiled by T'ang Literati Themselves), contains of sixty-one poems by thirtyfour poets, the majority of whom lived under the reign of the It seems to be the earliest of these anthologies, with the exception Empress Wu. of several volumes of the Chu-ying hsüeh shih chi 珠英學士詩集 which were discovered at Tunhuang. While the T'ang-jen hsüan T'ang-shin on the whole has been regarded as quite important source material for the study of T'ang poetry, the Sou-yü hsiao-chi has been almost completely neglected. It is scarcely even mentioned in either T'ang literary history or criticism. Various reasons may account for this, but the most important ones probably lie in the uncertainty as to when and by whom this anthology was compiled, and as to whether or not the extant copy is a revised and abridged edition of an earlier work. This study aims to elucidate these points as far as possible, and to assign to the Sou-yü hsiao-chi its proper place in the history of T'ang poetry and literary criticism. The Sou-yü hsiao-chi is first mentioned in Ch'en Chen-sun's 陳振孫 (Southern Sung) Chih-chai shu-lu chieh-t'i 直齋書錄解題, where it is described as a one-volume anthology. It is probable, then, that Ch'en referred to an edition identical with or similar to the extant one. In contrast to this, the Sou-yü ch'i 搜玉集 mentioned in the Hsin-T'ang-shu (新唐書：藝文志總集類) is described as being in ten volumes, and thus most likely represented the original edition. By a consideration of the interrelation of the arrangement, forms, and contents of the poems in the extant edition and of the poets themselves, and by taking into account bibliographies and other available reference works of the time, I have come to the conclusion that the Sou-yü chi must be the original from which the Sou-yü hsiao-chi was taken. Naturally, as the Sou-yü chi appears only as a title in various T'ang bibliographies, we can only guess to what degree our extant anthology reflects the original. But it is quite possible that the Sou-yü hsiao-chi reflects its predecessor rather closely. The original ten-volume edition was compiled K'ai-yüan 開元 12 (724), while the compilation of the one-volume edition was made in the middle of the southern Sung period. If the above conclusions are correct, a study of the contents and forms of the poems in the Sou-yü hsiao-chi will enable us to gain a fairly clear view of Chinese poetry from the end of the Earlier T'ang 初唐 to the begining of the Sheng T'ang 盛唐 eras. This study has been based mainly on the text as edited by the Shôhei-kô 昌平校 (the Confucian College run by the Tokugawa Shôgunate in Edo) and on the Chi-ku ko edition.