京都時代の王國維と鈴木虎雄(附: 鈴木虎雄宛の王國維未發表書簡)

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between the early modern Chinese scholar Wang Guo-wei 王國維 and Suzuki Torao 鈴木虎雄, one of the founders of Japanese Sinology. An examination of their interaction will add to the discussion concerning Japanese and Chinese scholarship and cultural history. Suzuki Torao's interest in the research of Zaju 雑劇 by Wang Guo-wei was not merely coincidental. At the time, Japanese scholars were cosciously begining research on Zaju for the first time. In order to clarify Suzuki's motive for working with Wang, this paper will look back on Japanese Sinology from Meiji 30 (1987). Fleeing the Revolution of 1911, Wang Guo-wei and Luo Zhen-yu 羅振玉 came to live in Kyôto. After meeting Suzuki, Wang enjoyed a close and many-faceted scholarly relationship with him. Moreover, they often exchanged poetry. From their poems, we not only get a glimpse of their artistic relationship, we can also see the political and cultural trends of Japanese scholarship when it encountered the thinking of Chinese minds such as Luo Zhen-yu and Wang, and note the respective influences and changes. This paper relies primarily on the surviving Suzuki-Wang documents to make an investigation of scholarship and cultural-historical problems in Japanese-Chinese relations. I also examine the personal lives of the two men and note similarities. Finally I will introduce six previously unknown letters from Wang to Suzuki. In addition, I will discuss the relation of these six letters to nine other of Wang's letters which were recently published.