@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002600,
 author = {Rotermund, Hartmut O and ROTERMUND, Hartmut O},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {21},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {pdf, This paper tries to elucidate the function of poems in the Buddhist didactic literature (setsuwa).
It first gives an overall view of the place and function of poems in Muju's major work, the Shasekishû, before taking up an analysis of a kind of i-hon ("different version") of the Shasekishû, the 1961 discovered Konsenshû. One particularity of this text is the fact that the quasi-totality of its setsuwa stories is ending in one or two poems. An analysis of those "final poems" shows easily that in many cases the content of the story is exactly identical to the message of the poems. In other cases however it becomes obvious that these "conclusion-poems" introduce, if not a radical new interpretation, so at least a somewhat new aspect in the comprehension or the finality of those stories.
One of the findings is that many Konsenshû-poems are the expression of a Zen-orientated message which suggests a sort of interiorisation of the otherwise plain message of the story, or are stressing the right understanding and the immediate applications of the setsuwa-finality.
Compared with the Shasekishû this peculiarity of the Konsenshû-quite unique in setsuwa literature-reveals, more than did the Shasekishû-the characteristics of a clearly preaching orientated didactical narrative literature.},
 pages = {164--181},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {公開講演　和歌から説話を見る　―唱導史の観点を中心にして―},
 year = {1998},
 yomi = {ロータモンド, ハルトムート オ}
}