Imagination at the End of Body : An Attempt at Interpreting Kashiwagi(Special Issue>Ancient Literature and Body)

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  • 身のはての想像力 : 柏木論の断章(<特集>古代文学と身体)
  • 身のはての想像力--柏木論の断章
  • ミ ノ ハテ ノ ソウゾウリョク カシワギロン ノ ダンショウ

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Abstract

The description of the smoke of the funeral fire that consumes his ownbody, the vision experienced by Kashiwagi in the Kashiwagi volume of The Tales of the Genji, is a capitulation of his own death through the thick layer of imaginative words which freely assimilate the notable expressions in the history of Waka. By analyzing the imagination Kashiwagi achieved at the end of his physicality, I have tried to clarify his relation to the emperor and the suitors who appear in Taketori Monogatari, as well as to Rokujo no Miyasudokoro (Lady Rokujo), in order to explain how deeply the decay of Kashiwagi's body affects the progression of the narrative world.

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