从《古事记》看日本妇女性格的形成

本文对日本文学经典《古事记》中的女性形象进行了一种文化学的分析,指出日本女性的性格在书中显示了三个层次,即:在远古神话中奠定了日本女性重政治、重家庭义务和重情感的特点,在历代天皇的传说中,日本女性往往体现出以情感和爱情为基点来处理政治和家庭关系,自仁德天皇以后的日本女性则越来越把恋爱视为人生的真正意义。由此形成了日本女性柔顺、体贴、忍耐、坚韧、细腻和善于言辞的特点,但也包含有对家庭义务和国家政治的献身精神。

On the Shaping of the Japanese Women's Characteristics in the Events of Ancient Time

This essay is intended to give a cultural analyse to the female images in The Events of Ancient time, a classic of Japanese literature. It holds that the female characters in this book represent the three levels: in the myth of the remote antiquity showed primarily that Japanese women valued political affairs, the duties of household and feelings; in the fames about the Mikados of the past dynasties, the Japanese women were incarnated as the ones who dealt with the relationship between political affairs and household from emotion and love; since Mikado, they have been put into those who regard the love as the genuine meaning of life more and more. What aforementioned has shaped the Japanese women's characteristics as follow: submissiveness, showing consideration for others, endurance , tenacity, exquisiteness, being good at verbalism, as well as their self-devotion to household and political affairs.