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

仍然活跃在九州的盲弹琵琶讲故事的人（zato-biwa）向我们讲述了中世纪的口头叙述传统。例如，除了表演口头叙事，他们的主要职业是宗教仪式，包括表演净化祈祷和仪式咒语。在本研究中，我主要关注的是杂文叙事与剧本之间的相互关系。所以我特别调查了福冈县铁原区的故事讲述者。因为在明治时期，铁原地区的说书人创作了许多口述剧本。在作者看来，对这一传统的研究不仅是作为一种地方表演传统，而且应该为口头叙述和剧本之间的相互关系这一更广泛的问题提供有价值的见解。它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.