In this paper I took a look at the characteristics of Yakamochi's Hanka through studying about the way of the Hanka that was tried within the range of Yakamochi & Ikenushi's Exchanging Poem and Song's group and the Dialogue Songs of Volume 13. Among Y...
In this paper I took a look at the characteristics of Yakamochi's Hanka through studying about the way of the Hanka that was tried within the range of Yakamochi & Ikenushi's Exchanging Poem and Song's group and the Dialogue Songs of Volume 13. Among Yakamochi's Chohankas, the general Chohanke's Hanka which is not an Exchanging Song is summerizing the Choka's theme or contents. But the 3 Hankas (3970~3972) of 'The One Song I am sending again(Vol. 17, 3967~3972). One of Yakamochi's pieces belonging to the Exchanging Poems and Song's group is written as a style touched off by the previous Chinese letter or Tanka of Ikenushi. That's why the image of preceding Ikenushi's Teaks is found as a clear image in the Hanks by way of the Choka. That means the former Tanka provides a momentum for composing the following Choke, developing it into the long song, and the Hanka makes this a simplified style. Moreover, the theme presented by the former Tanka isn't destroied in the Choka but is created again by the final Hanka. And the whole images of the preceding Tanka and the Choka are awakened. We can also see these aspects of Yakamochi's Hanka in the Hanka of Volume 13.
The Dialogue Chohanka's Hanka of Volume 13 doesn't follow the Choka style entirely but agrees with preceding Hanke. As a result, the style that the subjects for the Dialogue can share the emotion is produced. This way of the Hanka is so unusual that we can see it only in Yakamochi's Exchanging song and Volume 13. We can see the correlation between Volume 13 and Yakamochi's pieces through confirming the fact that the similar phrase and the similar expression in both of them, or the way of 'The love song's Exchanging that used Choka' is expressed in only Yakamochi's Exchanging song and Volume 13. Above all, we can suppose that Yakamochi who is thought to have taken part in editing Volume 13 was interested in 'The Answering Hanka' and utilized it for composing his Hanka.
Like this, this Hanka isn't creating the new poetic emotion but agrees with the preceding poems and controls the spreading of lyricism. Besides, it saves the poetic tension and gives the calmed emotion through the Hanka as a Tanka. As was stated above, Yakamochi in the declining times of Choka tried to put literary life into the declining Choke through exploring the diversified and active way of the Hanka.