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A Study on Women Poets of the Kyogoku School

  • 日本硏究
  • 2025, (62), pp.69~89
  • DOI : 10.20404/jscau.2024.08.62.69
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : January 9, 2025
  • Accepted : January 24, 2025
  • Published : February 20, 2025

PAK HYESONG 1

1국립한밭대학교

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ABSTRACT

In a broad sense, “female song” refers to “poetry with a woman as the subject,” contrasting with “male song,” which is recited by a man. This study examined the expression of “waka” by female poets of the Kyogoku School. Compared to other Imperial anthologies, Gyokuyoshu contains a particularly large number of waka written by women. Among the poems attributed to Kyogoku poets, 264 (about 9.4%) were composed by women. In contrast, Fugashu contains 508 poems by female poets (approximately 22.98 %), which is slightly more than Gyokuyoshu. A characteristic feature of waka by female poets of the Kyogyoku School is the frequent use of taigendome, a poetic structure in which the fifth phrase ends with a noun. The word that appears most frequently in taigendome verses by female poets in Gyokuyoshu and Fugashu is “sunset” (ゆふぐれ). “Sunset” became a distinctive poetic expression not often found in other song collections and was included in several songs of the Kyogoku School.

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