隋の煬帝について : その詩に關する一考察

Abstract

Yang Kuang (楊廣), known also by the title Yang-ti, is notorious as the tyranical emperor of Sui. On the other hand, he is celebrated as a representitive poet in his days. T'ai-tsung (太宗); the second emperor of T'ang (唐), together with his men, condemned Yang Kuang as a tyrant. They criticized his policy severly but at the same time appraised and preserved his literature. Yang-ti's poems have been categorized as sharing close affinities with the South-dynasties type. In those days such type of poems was called Court poetry (宮體詩). The most prevailing theme was personal sentiments, particularly sorrow. It was true that Yang-ti also wrote poems in such style and spirit. But according to Sui shu (隋書), what T'ai-tsung and his men appraise so much were not these court poems but rather another type of peoms which sang the joy that he could bring his ideal to realization as an emperor in classic and solemn words. He expressed himself without undue boasting. Such consciousness and diction were incompatible with the Court poetry that was in fashion. T'ai-tsung and his men recognized these points as the quintessence of his poetry. That he could write poems in such a style was due mainly to his position as the emperor. But the back ground we should not miss was the influence of the social inclinations of the poetry in the North dynasty. Despite the fact that Sui followed closely the civilization of the South dynasties and made everything in the South dynasty type, Yang-ti himself was born in the North-dynasty and his poetry retained much influences from the North dynasty.