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本稿は混沌社成立の背景に注目し、18世紀、近世大坂における文人詩社の変遷過程を再検討したものである。具体的には、大坂の儒者・菅甘谷の塾や、その後、活動していた文人詩社・蒹葭堂会と混沌社との関わりに注意を払いながら考察を進めていく。混沌社は、1765年(旧暦)儒者・片山北海を盟主として大坂で結成された文人詩社で大坂を代表する文人交遊の場であった。混沌社の研究は18世紀半ば以降、近世日本の文人社会のあり様と多様性を理解するうえで、重要な意味を持つ。 第一章では蒹葭堂会と混沌社が儒学を基盤とする塾から胎動しはじめ展開していったこと、彼らが門下の垣根を越えて交遊していたことが、文人詩社の結成を後押ししたことを確認した。第二章では、各詩社における会約を比較し、各々の詩社の特色を浮き彫りにすると同時に、混沌社に至るまで詩社の営みと交遊の様相と変遷を追跡する。第三章では、『浪速混沌詩社集』の詩や、《蒹葭雅集図》の詩などの記録を取り上げながら、混沌社の特色がすでに、成立以前に確立していた可能性を検討した。それと同時に詩社の集った文人たちの関心と才能が漢詩にとどまることなく、多岐にわたっていたことにも注目した。それを通して、文人趣味が集う人々の生き方の一種として定着していったことが近世日本の詩社における営みの変遷を促したことを再検討することができた。


This paper reexamines changes in literary societies in 18th-century Osaka, with a focus on the background factors leading to the formation of the Kontonsha. More specifically, I will pay attention to the Kontonsha’s relationships to the following organizations: the school of the Confucian scholar Kan Kankoku, and the Kenkado-kai, a literary society active later. Kontonsha was a literary society established in 1765 (in the old Japanese lunar calendar) under the leadership of Confucian scholar Katayama Hokkai and was one of the major meeting places for literary people of the time in Osaka. Researching the Kontonsha is crucial to understanding the state of literary societies in modern Japan since the late 18th century, as well as their diversity. The first section demonstrates how the Confucianism underpinning the conception and development of both the Kenkado-kai and Kontonsha societies, as well as their members’ crossing of the boundaries of student and teacher through free interaction, helped to drive the creation of future literary societies. The second section compares the different societies’ meetings, highlighting the distinct character of each literary society while simultaneously tracing what the activities and interactions of these societies were like and how they changed leading up to the formation of the Kontonsha. The third section draws on the poems recorded in materials such as Naniwa Konton Shishashu and Kenka Gashuzu to consider the possibility that the characteristics of the Kontonsha were already defined prior to its formation. In this section, I also focus on the way the groups of literary people gathered in these societies had interests and talents in a wide variety of areas, rather than being limited to Chinese-style poetry. Through this framework, I was able to reexamine how a certain way of life took root for these members with diverse literary interests, and how this was a driving force behind the changes in literary societies’ activities in modern Japan.