@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001933,
 author = {Bednarczyk, Adama and BEDNARCZYK, Adama},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {36},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, Most of the medieval diaries written in kanbun are works by male aristocrats and monks. As regards the text structure and the style, they are very similar, and for the sake of detailed daily records these records are thought to have a great historical value. A good example of such l iterature is “Kanmon Gyoki” by Prince Fushiminomiya Sadafusa that follows earlier male diaries in kanbun as well. Vivid descriptions of various aristocratic and secular events etc. at the court, and of the shogunate in the first half of the fifteenth century, make that the text is considered in many aspects as a unique historical source.
Among different interesting issues concerning Sadafusa’s diary, especially often used expression shushō, which appears in numerous entries, is remarkable. The meaning of shushō can be interpreted as koto ni sugururu (lit. ‘particularly distinguished’, ‘excellent’). Originally, it was a word expressing an admiration for exquisite things, and as such were regarded objects and things concerning sacred and religious matters. As a Buddhist term, shushō means literally ‘excellent’, and as we can also read in “Muryōjūkyoˉ”, to make moral influence ‘laudable is unusual’ (shushō ni shite keu nari). In his Bodhisattva times, when Amida-butsu took an oath saving all living things, we can find an admiration of his act that says, it ‘surpasses particularly praiseworthy pray’ (mujō shushō ni chōhotsu seri). However, does the expression shushō recorded in “Kanmon Gyoki” correspond with the meaning explained above? If we look closer at different situations, when shushō was used, it is clear that it could mean: ‘excellent, superior’, ‘beautiful’, ‘elegant’, ‘extremely interesting’, etc. If so, semantically shushō seems to have, to a certain degree, a similar broad sense to that, we can see in case of the aesthetic category okashi, popular in some works of the Heian aristocracy. In the paper, through an examination of shushō appearing in Prince Sadafusa’s diary, I would like to consider various meanings of this expression as a peculiar type of aesthetic sense.},
 pages = {185--216},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　『看聞御記』に再生した「をかし」美意識としての「殊勝」},
 year = {2013},
 yomi = {ベドゥナルチク, アダム}
}