A basic study on the oral tradition of Moso-Biwa

Moso（盲人吟游诗人）-流传到九州各地的Biwa是有价值的，可以知道中世纪的口头传统是什么; Danmono（史诗传统）没有剧本可以播放，这是宗教礼仪（祈祷，算命），这是主要的戏剧而不是Danmono。对毛索口头传统的研究在考察地方民众的公共娱乐活动中具有普遍性的意义，本文以拥有九州毛索-琵琶湖团之多的熊本县的毛索为研究对象，考察了以下几点：它的历史与现状，旦莫诺戏剧口头创作的建构，旦莫诺与宗教礼仪的关系，它与邻近娱乐活动的关系，以及它在娱乐史或文学史上的地位。

Moso (blind minstrel)-Biwa which is handed down to various parts of Kyusyu is valuable to know what the medieval oral tradition was ; Danmono (epic tradition) had no script to play, it is the religios courtesy (prayer, fortune-telling) that was the main play not Danmono. The study of Moso's oral tradition has some universal point of view over the interests in the investigation of public entertainments in the provincial masses.In this paper, I gave a attention to Moso in Kumamoto prefecture which has much numbers of Danmono of Moso-Biwa in Kyusyu, and examined the following points; its histry and actual condition, the construction of oral composition at Danmono play, the correlation between Danmono and religious courtesy, the relation between Danmono and another adjacent entertainments, and its stand in entertainments' history or literary history.