A General Study of the Formative Process of Noh Drama in the Ages of Kan'ami and Zeami

我从三个不同的角度来思考能剧是如何在菅弥和泽弥时代完成的。首先，在坎阿米和泽阿米的作品中可以找到什么样的文学品质？第二，它们是在什么过程中被制作成艺术品的？第三，在方向上发生了怎样的变化？为了实现我的目标，我寻找了质量好的能歌文本，拍摄了它们的照片，并将它们保存在CD-ROM中，以便于查找文本。我对这些图片进行了修改，并对它们进行了仔细的研究。此外，我还根据最早出现的时间和主人公的类型，列出了在Zeami时代存在的131首能歌。在这个过程中，我对kanami时代、Zeami时代的前半期和Zeami时代的后半期分别上演了什么样的能剧有了一个大致的了解。此外，我还整理了能剧从Kanami时代到Zeami时代是如何吸收舞蹈和音乐的元素，并形成了现在形式的能剧的基本模型。在这些成果的基础上，我于1996年11月发表了学位论文，并于1997年11月获得早稻田大学文学博士学位。1996年秋，我向中世纪文学学会作了研究报告，并于1997年分别在《中世纪文学学会公报》和《野上纪念能剧研究所公报》上发表了研究成果。目前我正在把我的研究成果编成一本书，准备出版。

I considered how Noh drama attained completion in the ages of Kan'ami and Zeami from three different angles. First, what kind of literary quality can be found in the works of Kan'ami and Zeami? Second, in what process were they produced as works of art? Third, what kind of changes were they subject to in terms of direction?To carry out my objective, I looked for Noh song texts of good quality, took their pictures, and kept them in a CD-ROM so as to make it easy to look up the texts. I made revised texts from those pictures and gave a careful study to them.Also I made a list of 131 Noh songs known to have existed in the age of Zeami, placing them according to the date of their first appearances and the types of protagonists. In the process, I came to have a general idea of what kind of Noh plays were staged in the age of Kan'ami, in the first half of the age of Zeami, and in the latter half of it respectively.In addition, I put my ideas in order about how Noh drama, from the age of Kanami to that of Zeami, absorbed the elements of dancing and music, and developed a basic model for Noh in its present form.Building on these fruits, I advanced a thesis for a degree in November, 1996, and got the degree of Doctor of Literature from Waseda University in November 1997. Also I made a report of my research to the Society of Medieval Literature in the autumn of 1996, and published the outcome of my research separately in the Bulletin of the Society of Medieval Literature and in the Bulletin of Nogami Memorial Noh Theater Research Institute in 1997. At present I am making up my research results into a book and preparing for publishing it.