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大阪大学言語文化学. 2020, 29, p. 57-74

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2020-03-31

English Version of the Hyakunin-Isshu Poems No. 48 and No. 49 in Spring Snow（The First Book in The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy） In this paper, I explore the English version of Mishima Yukio’s Spring Snow（Haru no Yuki, 1969）, the first volume of his tetralogy The Sea of Fertility（Hojo no Umi）, translated by Michael Gallagher. This is a love story of Kiyoaki Matugae, the son of a rising nouveauriche family, and Satoko Ayakura, the daughter of a fallen aristocratic family. Donald Keene, a prominent scholar of Japanese literature, criticized Gallagher’s translation, arguing “the poetic expressions of the original are flattered out, presumably to make things easier for the Western reader.” However, there have been only a few research studies conducted through analyzing the text. This novel is full of allusions to Japanese classical literature. Especially, I would like to focus on two poems included in One Hundred Poems from One Hundred Poets（Hyakunin- Isshu）inserted in the work, which convey the above-mentioned characters’ feelings in the entire novel by allusion. There are remarkable similarities in the motifs of the poems and these two characters’ feelings. After being informed of the marriage of Prince Harunori and Satoko, Kiyoaki realized that he lost Satoko. At that moment, he found a scroll used for penmanship practiced by Kiyoaki and Satoko in their childhood, in which the Hyakunin-Isshu poem No.48 was transcribed by Kiyoaki and No.49 by Satoko, and that made him feel nostalgic. Both of these poems are interpreted as expression of the grief of one-sided love whose imagery is based on waves, rocks, winds, and fires. Although these natural motifs are beautifully used in the ST（source text）, Gallagher translated these poems using easy expressions in order to make them more readily intelligible to the Western readers. First, I attempt to analyze how these poems work in the ST as allusion. This paper also illustrates how Gallagher’s translation of the poems has changed the original description of their relationship. Secondly, by comparing other translations of No.48 and No.49 with Gallagher’s translation, I point out what is missing in the TT（target text）. Lastly, I propose the importance of the literary translation of allusion from the point of view of dynamic equivalence, a notion proposed by Eugene Nida.

10.18910/77117

77117

『豊饒の海』『春の雪』の英語翻訳 : 百人一首48番49番の訳出について

寺浦, 麻由

大阪大学言語文化学会

2020-03-31

大阪大学言語文化学

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57

74

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/77117

10.18910/77117

https://doi.org/10.18910/77117