日本人与《三国志演义》——以江户时代为中心

从17世纪初开始经由长崎而传至日本的小说《三国志演义》,由于在1692年出版了京都湖南文山的翻译本(日译本)《通俗三国志》而非常迅速地广为传播,成为日本人所爱读之书。到江户时代后期,《三国志演义》也为日本的传统艺能提供了题材,"带图本"之外又成为"净瑠璃"、"洒落本"等等各种艺能的节目之一,一般庶民对之深感亲切。在这过程中,《三国志演义》中上场的人物为合于日本人的爱好口味而被改变,逐渐失掉了原来的形态。从各种艺能里对《三国志演义》所采用的种种变化的过程里,可以明白江户时代的日本庶民所要求的文化真谛。

Japanese and The Romance of Three Kingdoms

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous traditional Chinese novel was transported to Japan through Nagasaki in the early 17th century. The novel became one of the favorite readings of Japanese when its Japanese translation by Konan Bunzan with another title "A Vernacular History of the Three Kingdoms" was published in 1692 and widespread around Japan since then. In the late Edo period, it began to provide materials not only for a lot of illustrated books, but also for the various traditional arts of Japan, such as "ningyo Joruri" and "Syarebon," etc. In the process of transition, the characters in the novel had been adapted to local tastes and lost its original form. What can be found in the changes of the novel is the cultural core requested by the common people in Edo Janan.