The Fundamental Research on Ueda Akinari's Autograph Manuscripts and Autograph Fragments

这项历时三年的研究得出了以下新发现。Akinari现存的亲笔手稿已明确建立严格区分他的亲笔签名从'追溯' MSS（即MSS的抄写员痕迹的范例），区分以前的奖学金有时未能作出由于缺乏详尽的研究。本研究确定为可追溯的MSS包括Tsuki no Mae和Tsurigi no Mai各一个MS。手稿MSS的总数量，包括丹札库条和白石碎片，略低于800。通过将所有由此确定为他的亲笔签名的MSS按写作时间顺序排列（见科学研究补助金报告（小册子）），他的笔迹随着时间的推移发生了变化。因此，可以确定，春雨物语的MSS，在日期上的假设有所不同，都是从文化五年（1808年）左右开始的。3.通过对他的每一部作品中的亲笔手稿进行分类，建立了单部作品中各种手稿的相对年表，并对他阐述作品的过程进行了阐述。因此，在富士山的节度使的情况下，其中四个签名MSS已知存在，天理图书馆MS已被确定为最早的，其次是两个私人拥有的MSS，Kagiya文库MS是最新的。4.通过对手稿MSS的全面考察，可以看出，在创作和歌诗和故事作品时，与他写德川时代的“日本学”不同，他对同一音节使用了不同种类的假名，甚至注意字母的大小和排列，从而显示了他对不同类型作品的不同记谱态度。

The research, which has taken three years, has brought about the following new findings.1. Akinari's extant autograph manuscripts have been definitely established by strictly distinguishing his autographs from the 'traced' MSS (i.e.MSS whose scribe traces the exemplar), a distinction which the previous scholarship has sometimes failed to make owing to the lack of exhaustive study. The MSS which the present research has identified as traced ones include one MS each of Tsuki no Mae and Tsurigi no Mai. The total number of the autograph MSS, including tanzaku strips and kaishi fragments, amounts to a little less than 800.2. By placing all the MSS thus identified as his autographs in chronological order of writing (see Reports for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (in booklet)), the change of his handwriting in the course of time has been revealed. As a result, it has been ascertained that the MSS of Harusame Monogatari, on the date of which assumptions have varied, all date from around the 5th year of Bunka(1808).3. By classifying the autograph MSS into each of his works, relative chronology has been established of the various MSS of the single work and the process through which he elaborated his works elucidated. Thus in the case of Fuji-san no Setsu, of which four autograph MSS are known to exist, the Tenri Library MS has been decided to be the earliest, followed by two MSS of private possession, the Kagiya Bunko MS being the latest.4. Through a comprehensive examination of the autograph MSS it has emerged that in writing works of waka poems and tales, as distinct from the cases where he wrote on kokugaku ('Japonology' of the Tokugawa era), he used diverse kind of kana characters for the same syllable and paid attention even to the size and arrangement of letters, thus showing his different attitude towards notation for different genres of production.