杜甫における仙境と仙道への憧憬

Abstract

According to Li-Po and Tu-Fu 李白與杜甫 written by Kuo-Mojuo 郭沫若, one of the chapters “Tu-Fu's religious belief” said : “From youth to death, Tu-fu had a strong aspiration to Ke-Hung 葛洪 and Wang-Chi'ao 王喬, and he pursued Cinnabar 丹砂 and Ganoderma luciTum 靈芝, wished to ride a crane and whale shark, and hoped to visit kou lou 勾漏 and spiritual island 仙島”, which I think is well said. As a feature of Tu-Fu's aspiration to spiritual land and way, I would like to add four elements as below: 1. Tu-Fu's spiritual aspiration is divided into two; spiritual land and way. The former is the desire to go to spiritual land Ts'ang zhou 滄州, and the latter is the wish for immortality. 2. Tu-Fu's expression about spiritual is strongly related to his aspiration. Most of his expression about spiritual in his poetry (approximately 70%) contains his eagerness for spiritual. 3. From his youth to later years, Tu-Fu's aspiration to spiritual is so consistent that it was expressed straightforward unchangeably. 4. Tu-Fu's aspiration to spiritual became stronger in his later years. As his desperation of not being able to go back to north had increased and as his age and disease progressed, his craving for spiritual way became stronger. Among many of private delights 獨善, the strong aspiration to spiritual land and way had played the most important role to support Tu-Fu's whole life.