Jodo Shinshu Sect and Waka Poems:Focusing on Relationship between the Bukko-ji School of Jodo Shinshu Sect and the Keien School

通过对北光寺和北光寺派寺院所拥有的档案文献的考察，证实了香川桂树所开创的敬园派之所以繁荣，很大程度上是因为香川桂树的《和歌诗论》和《和歌诗》在信州北光寺派僧侣和信众中的传播。摘要通过对北光寺、信众家族等信州各教派寺院流传下来的文献资料、信兰的各种传记等的调查，揭示了以下事实。世纪中期，在江户幕府的寺庙控制政策中，信州派各流派的总寺被提升为与寺院有关的同时，信兰的宫廷贵族身份和和歌诗专家的身份在普通民众中得到了强调，信兰的这种形象使北光寺派和敬园派之间产生了密切的联系。

Through investigation of the archival documents owned by Bukko-ji and temples of the Bukko-ji school, it wasu confirmed that the reason of the prosperity of the Keien school initiated by Kageki Kagawa was largely attributed to the dissemination of the Kageki`s essays on waka poetry and waka poems among priest and followers of the Bukkou-ji school of Shinshu sect.Also, based on the result of the investigation on the documets passed down templs of Shinshu sects including that of the Bukko-ji school and family of followers , various biographies of Shinran and so on, following fact was revealed. In the middle of 17th century, at the same prriod when the head temple of each school of Shinshu sect was raised to associate monzeki as part of temple control policy of Edo Shognate, Shinran`s being from court nobles and expert of waka poems became emphasized among ordinary people, and such images of Shinran enabledthe intimate connection between the Bukko-ji School and the Keien School.