When the Song Entires - When the Song Entires

Japanese: 《歌の円寂する時》 - うたのえんじゃくするとき
When the Song Entires - When the Song Entires

…In the midst of all this, the four rounds of discussions on the denial of tanka or the demise of tanka shed new light on issues from the classical tanka theory, such as the issue of tanka as the “poetry of the times” and the issue of “heart” and “words,” and also broadened the scope of tanka theory by incorporating new issues such as Western and Japanese poetry, tradition and modernity, and novels and poetry. The first was the preface to “Shintai Shisho” (1882), followed by Onoe Shibashu’s “A Personal Theory on the Demise of Tanka” (1910), Shakutaiku (Orikuchi Shinobu)’s “The Time of Tanka’s Entrance” (1926), and the so-called “Second Art Theory” period in the early 1940s after World War II. These were typical occasions that directly questioned the basis of tanka and the reason for its existence, and tanka theory has made its own way in the history of literary criticism. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "The Time When Song Reaches Quietness" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そうしたなかで,都合4度にわたる短歌否定論ないしは短歌滅亡論をめぐってのやりとりは,〈時代の詩〉としての問題,〈心〉と〈言葉〉の問題といった古典歌論以来の問題にあらたな角度から照明を当て,加えて西欧詩と日本の詩,伝統と現代,小説と詩といった新しい問題をとり込んで〈歌論〉の領域を広げ,かつ論点を深めたのであった。最初は,《新体詩抄》序(1882)にはじまるそれ,以下,尾上柴舟〈短歌滅亡私論〉(1910),釈迢空(ちようくう)(折口信夫)〈歌の円寂する時〉(1926),そして第2次大戦後の昭和20年代初頭のいわゆる〈第二芸術論〉時代,この4度である。歌の根拠,歌の存在理由を直接に問うたこれらの機会を典型的な場面として,〈歌論〉は文芸評論史のなかで独自の歩みを進めてきたのである。…

※「《歌の円寂する時》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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