The way in which Ono no Komachi’s personal collection (Komachishū) loosely shapes her “life” is believed to have been influenced not only by stories and legends that were orally transmitted soon after her death, but also by the image of flowering and decline depicted in her most celebrated poem, Hana no iro wa. Through an analysis of the textual lines of the collection, this paper aims to shed light on the significance of another renowned poem by Komachi, Wabinureba. This poem is pivotal in establishing one of the central themes of the Komachishū - Komachi’s later life of misery (ukimi) - and serves as inspiration for the chōka that narrates Komachi’s sad and uncertain existence following the loss of her partner. By examining the chōka, this contribution further argues that, as it was included in a previous 45-poem variant text of the Komachishū, it could have served as a potential framework for portraying Komachi's life as depicted in the expanded popular text (the 116-poem rufubon) of the collection.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0215-9966
Titolo del capitolo
Tracciare il senso di una vita. Wabinureba e Hisakata no nei codici della raccolta poetica di Komachi (Komachishū)
Autori
Francesca Fraccaro
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.07
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Il dono dell’airone
Sottotitolo del libro
Scritti in onore di Ikuko Sagiyama
Curatori
Luca Capponcelli, Diego Cucinelli, Chiara Ghidini, Matilde Mastrangelo, Rolando Minuti
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
390
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0421-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0422-4
Collana
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
ISSN della collana
2975-0393
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0261