@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002703,
 author = {Klopfenstein, Eduard and KLOPFENSTEIN, Eduard},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {28},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, Every day, people use the words “classics”, “classical literature” (klassisch, klassische Literatur in German) without very much consideration. Especially in Japan, the word “classics” seems to be used as a fixed concept in many cases.
Here, shall we have to throw a light on this word once again? For example, was there any word or concept equivalent to “classics” for the Japanese in the 7th or 8th century - as a rather unusual question?
Probably “classics” evokes a different sense of values, a different image in each period. In a certain case, “classics” is regarded as what brings us fruits and what gives us power. But in another case, it is rather regarded as a hindrance and the thing that we should keep at a distance.
On this background linked poetry (renga・renshi) is an interesting subject which deserves consideration.
It can be said that the literary form which is created by two or more human beings and is materialized in joint work, always appears not at the early stage in the literary development process, but at a later stage.
The poets (kajin・haijin・shijin) who compose the linked poems, must have common knowledge, culture and ideals. Based on these they compose something new. Therefore linked poetry (renga・renshi) can be called a complex form of literature in which traditional elements and future-oriented elements entangled closely, in a very special way.},
 pages = {187--195},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　近松の霊と21世紀の恋人たち　―連歌・連詩における古典の役割―},
 year = {2005},
 yomi = {クロッペンシュタイン, エドゥアルド}
}