The Interrelationship between Oral Narratives and Scripts : A Study in Traditional Oral Narratives of Zato-biwa

盲人琵琶说书人(Zato-biwa)仍然活跃在九州，他们有很多关于中世纪口头叙事的传统可以告诉我们。例如，除了表演口头叙事外，他们的主要职业相当于宗教仪式，涉及到净化祈祷和仪式咒语的表演。在本研究中，我将注意力集中在Zato-biwa中的叙事和剧本之间的相互关系上。所以我特别调查了福冈县提库真区的说书人。因为帝库真地区的说书人在明治时期创作了许多口头叙事剧本。在作者看来，这一研究或这一传统不仅是作为一种地方表演传统而有意义的，而且应该对口头叙事与剧本之间的关系这一更广泛的问题提供有价值的见解。它还暗示了中世纪日本的口头叙事表演是什么。

The blind lute-playing story-tellers(zato-biwa) are still active in Kyusyu have much to tell us about the mediaeval tradition of oral narrative. For example, in addition to performing oral narratives, their principle occupation is rather with religious rites that involve the performance of purificatory prayers and ritual incantations.In this study, I focused my attention on the interrelationship between the or al narratives and scripts in zato-biwa. So I especially investigated the story-tellers of the tikuzen district in fukuoka prefecture. Because the story-tellers of the tikuzen district produced many scripts of oral narratives in meiji period.In the authers view, the study or this tradition is of interest not only as a local performance traditin, but should provide valuable insight into the much broader question of interrelationship between the oral narratives and scripts. And it suggests what oral narrative performance was in mediaeval Japan.