海を越えた唱和 : 龍楡生氏と吉川幸次郎・小川環樹兩先生

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the hitherto little known exchanges of poetry between the Chinese finest researcher of poetry and excellent classical poet Long Yusheng 龍楡生 and Professors in the Department of Chinese Literature at Kyôto University, Yoshikawa Kôjirô 吉川幸次郎 and Ogawa Tamaki 小川環樹 in the postwar period. The correspondence started in the Chinese poetry magazine which Mr. Imazeki Tempô 今關天彭 edited in 1954 after it was founded by the government of the People's Republic of China and ended just before the Cultural Revolution. It demonstrates clearly that the Japanese professors had achieved a high level of writing ability in Chinese and competence in the composition of poetry in the classical style and that the three formed a literary circle, comparable to those formed by the Chinese literati in the past.