A STUDY OF ORAL NARRATIVE TRADITION IN DEROREN-SAIMON

DEROREN-SAIMON是日本的口述叙事传统之一，起源于江户（近代早期的东京），于19世纪传遍日本。目前只在山形地区活跃的“德罗伦-赛蒙”的演员们在没有剧本的情况下进行表演。他们自己的方式，组成口头叙事，暗示了什么是口头叙事表演在中世纪的日本。在这项研究中，我调查了德罗伦-西蒙的历史，特别是在19世纪，以及它表演了什么样的故事。19世纪是日本建立现代民族国家的时期。因此，这一研究应该为了解近代日本在口述叙事的传播下形成了什么样的心态和道德提供有价值的见解。

DEROREN-SAIMON,one of oral narrative traditions in Japan, began in Edo (early modern Tokyo) and spread throughout Japan in the 19th centure.The performers of DEROREN-SAIMON,who are still active only in Yamagata district, do their performance without aid of a script. Their own way, composing oral narratives, suggests what oral narrative performance was in medieval Japan.In this study, I investigated the history of DEROREN-SAIMON,espesially in the 19th century, and what kind of tales were performed by it. The 19th century is when the modern nation state was built in Japan. So this study should provide valuable insight to know what mentality and morality in modrn Japan were formed by the spread of oral narratives.