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

这项历时三年的研究取得了以下新发现：1.Akinari现存的亲笔手稿是通过严格区分他的亲笔签名和“跟踪”MS(即其抄写员跟踪样本的MS)来确定的，而以前的学术有时由于缺乏详尽的研究而未能做到这一点。本研究已确定为可追溯的MS包括Tsuki no Mae和Tsurigi no Mai各一个MS。包括Tanzaku条和Kaishi碎片在内的签名MS总数不到800.2个。通过将所有被确认为他亲笔签名的MS按书写时间顺序排列(见科学研究资助报告(在小册子中))，他的笔迹随着时间的推移而发生的变化已经被揭示出来。因此，已经确定，假设日期不同的Harusame Monogatari的MSS都可以追溯到本卡公元5年(1808)左右。通过将他的亲笔签名作品归类到他的每一部作品中，建立了单个作品的各种MS的相对年表，以及他阐述作品的过程。因此，在富士山的情况下，已知存在四个亲笔签名的MS，Tenri图书馆MS被确定为最早的，其次是两个私人拥有的MS，最晚的是Kagiya Bunko MS。通过对亲笔签名MSS的综合考察发现，在和家诗歌和故事的创作中，与他在Kokugaku(德川时代的日本学)上所写的作品不同，他在同一音节上使用了不同种类的假名字符，甚至注意到字母的大小和排列，从而显示了他对不同文体的记法的不同态度。

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.