Setsuwa

Setsuwa (Japanese说话), completely Setsuwa bungaku (Japanese说话 文学) refers to a genre of Japanese folk narrative literature of the Middle Ages (c. 800-1300 ). The Setsuwa can be regarded as variant of the Monogatari lower literary level; they usually contain a Buddhist element. They often refer to unusual, supernatural events, indicating the right to record actual events.

• 3.1 General
• 3.2 Nihon Ryōiki
• 3.3 Konjaku - Monogatari
• 3.4 cocoon chomonjū
• 3.5 Shasekishu

History

The Setsuwa bungaku is literature originally verbally spoken, then written down in nice shape " story" ( in liters arge -historic sense; see " fabula " in its original meaning: the short story, with its inevitable in ancient times, teaching, teaching, edifying Abzweckung ). Even more: This literature unfolds more and more powerful over the course of time, until they flourish at the height of the Middle Ages to preserve gigantic works, from where they then strongly modified in the most varied literary designs into on and on varied. There are collections of myths, legends, myths and fairy tales in popular form. These are often strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. This also applies to the secular component, but occur here since the Kamakura period significantly (neo - ) Confucian thought in the foreground. Throughout the literature, the author Setsuwa occurs completely behind the work; in part, the collections have survived anonymous. The didactic moment is strong in them and they are not aligned like other genres of Japanese literature of the Middle Ages aristocratic classes of readers. In the collections of the world of medieval Japanese people is clear. History motive they are a treasure trove for all later fiction and drama ( Noh, Jōruri ). The Setsuwa literature forms the foundation for the popular literature of the Muromachi and Tokugawa period.

The term itself was only in the Meiji period around 1870 public domain.

Significant works

Buddhistic

• Nihon Ryōiki: 116 early Buddhist legends, the cleric Kyōkai (景 戒) before 822, compiled. Written in Hentai Kanbun style. Is generally regarded as the first work in this genre.
• Sambo Ekotoba (三宝 絵 词, German: "Three Gems in word and image " ): In three volumes, Eikan second year ( 984 ) of Minamoto no Tamenori (源 为 宪, † 1011) Sino- Japanese: Iken, so the book Ikenki name written for a daughter Reizei Tennō 's, is in time to the Nihon Ryōiki close, from the it takes over parts word for word, but is a lot different in appearance characteristic by the language is predominantly written in Kana and accordingly an other. The first volume is devoted to the Buddhist antiquity, ie of the present Japanese Buddhism time, especially Shaka, the second of the Japanese Buddhist past, the third of the then present.
• Hōmotsushū ( 1176 )
• Senjūshō (13th century)
• Kankyo -no- tomo ( 1222 )
• Hosshinshū ( 1257 )
• Shasekishū (砂石 集): Begun in 1279, completed in 1283; Muju Ichien (无 住 一 圆, 1226-1312 ), who wandered through a variety of teaching directions, and finally turned to very Zen, speaks here in 10 volumes on most manifold of Buddhism within the meaning of Buddhist- religious people in the Kamakura period. Muju then lived in Chomo -ji in the province of Ogami.
• Zodanshū ( 1305)
• Also refer to the group of Ōjōden, in which more than those who achieved rebirth in the " Pure Land of the West" ( Paradise of the Amida ) reported. Inter alia Jui ōjōden (拾遗 往生 传; approx 1110-12 ); Nippon - ojo - goku - raku -ki (日本 往生 极 楽 记) of Yoshihige no Yasutane, Period: 983-88.

Profane

• Konjaku Monogatarishū (今昔 物语 集) Previously Minamoto no Takakuni ( 1004-77 ) attributed to written in the main, currently Go- Reizei Tenno 's, in the era Kohei ( 1058-65 ). Today, it is by an unknown author, probably Tachibana no Narisue. Period: 1106-10 [or 13th century ], with numerous later addition ratios. The term konjaku refers to the constantly recurring phrase input of these stories ( konjaku = ima wa mukashi = Once upon a time ... ). A total of over 1100 stories in 31 volumes.
• Gōdanshō ( 1105 )
• Kohon Setsuwashū ( 1130 )
• Uchigikishū ( to 1134 )
• Kojidan ( 1215 ) and Zoku - Kojidan ( to 1219 )
• Jikkinshō ( 1252)
• Kokonchomonshū (古今 着 闻 集; preface in 1254; " collection of familiar stories from antiquity and the present " ): Posted in 20 volumes of Tachibana no Narisue (橘 成 季)