Hieda no Are
Hieda no Are ( Japanese 稗 田 阿 礼 ) was a Japanese narrator ( katari ) of the seventh and eighth centuries and probably a member of the reciter's guild ( katari-be ), whose task was to recite traditional texts at court ceremonies.
Little is known about the living conditions of Hieda no Ares, it is even disputed whether it was a man or a woman. He was courtier ( toneri ) to Emperor Temmu , who ruled from 672 to 686, which suggests that Hieda no Ares was born around 650. The position of courtier was reserved for men, on which the assumption that Hieda was a man is based. On the other hand, the assumption that Hieda was a woman supports the assumption that she is counted among the Sarume-no-kimi clan, who sent many women to the court.
In the year 712, under the rule of Empress Gemmei , the court scholar Ō no Yasumaro (Futo no Yasumari no Ason) recorded the Kojiki after the oral lecture Hieda no Ares , which describes the mythology and early history of Japan and the first extensive written source of the Japanese Is literary history. It is not known whether Hieda no Are used older written sources or purely oral traditions.
literature
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 308 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
- Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker: The woman's hand: gender and theory in Japanese women's writing , Stanford University Press, 1996, ISBN 9780804727228 , p. 105
- Bruno Lewin : Kleines Lexikon der Japanologie: zur Kulturgeschichte Japans , 3rd edition Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995, ISBN 9783447036689 , p. 106
- John Whitney Hall: The Cambridge History of Japan: Ancient Japan , New Edition Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 9780521223522 , p. 464
- Gary L. Ebersole: Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan , Princeton University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780691019291 , p. 8
Individual evidence
- ↑ 稗 田 阿 礼 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 21, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ Sen'ichi Hisamatsu: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature . 3. Edition. Kodansha International, Tokyo 1982, ISBN 0-87011-253-8 , pp. 15-16 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hieda no Are |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 稗 田 阿 礼 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese narrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century |