『野加伊之牛』の研究  [in Japanese] A Study of Nogai-no-Ushi  [in Japanese]

"Nogai-no-Ushi" is an instructive book for women. It consists of 100 traditional Japanese poems (waka). Most of the poems have explanations, and the explanations include plentiful quotations from many books. According to the postscript of "Nogai-no-Ushi", a father named Masayuki wrote it for his daughters in 1649 (Keian-2). The writing have background of the fashion for instructive book for women in the early Edo period, and publications have had a genre of such instructive book for women (Jokun-mono) in those days. With comparison with contemporary instructive books for women, the paper explains the form of "Nogai-no-Ushi" and its content, and it studies relations to "Isemonogatari-Ketsugisho", the commentary on "Isemonogatari" written by Hosokawa Yusai, and traditional Japanese poems composed by Ogura Sanezumi, the cultured general.

"Nogai-no-Ushi" is an instructive book for women. It consists of 100 traditional Japanese poems (waka). Most of the poems have explanations, and the explanations include plentiful quotations from many books. According to the postscript of "Nogai-no-Ushi", a father named Masayuki wrote it for his daughters in 1649 (Keian-2). The writing have background of the fashion for instructive book for women in the early Edo period, and publications have had a genre of such instructive book for women (Jokun-mono) in those days. With comparison with contemporary instructive books for women, the paper explains the form of "Nogai-no-Ushi" and its content, and it studies relations to "Isemonogatari-Ketsugisho", the commentary on "Isemonogatari" written by Hosokawa Yusai, and traditional Japanese poems composed by Ogura Sanezumi, the cultured general.