The Landscapes with Sounds : Sounds in Kokin-waka-shu-kanajo and Other Writings of the Heian Period(<Special Issue>Sounds and Voices in Medieval Literature)

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  • 音のある風景 : 『古今和歌集』仮名序を起点に(<特集>中世文学における「音」・「声」)
  • 音のある風景--『古今和歌集』仮名序を起点に
  • オト ノ アル フウケイ コキン ワカシュウ カナ ジョ オ キテン ニ

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Sounds are effectively used in the literary works of the Heian Period. Kokin-waka-shu-kanajo, for example, begins with the sounds of birds and frogs: "Bush warblers singing in blossoms, frogs croaking in the water." From the outset Murasaki-Shikibu-nikki draws the reader's attention not to the story itself but to sounds as in the passages "the voices of the monks continuously reading a sutra" and "the everlasting sound of the flow of water." Such landscapes with sounds in the literary texts, as will be argued here, strongly reflect the ideas of the aristocratic architecture and gardening of the age.

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