@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002747,
 author = {小島, 孝之 and KOJIMA, Takayuki},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {31},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, Dialogues with no specific reader or audience in mind are often monologues in which the writer is asking himself a question, and contemplations by a lonely recluse inevitably turn into a monologue, as apparent in the well-known ending of An Account of My Hut and also in Saigyo’s tanka. The act of writing such a dialogue indicates a strong desire to converse with someone who understands what the writer really wants to say. The “recluse,” responsible for a large number of works in medieval literature, resolved himself to a life of unconditional loneliness as part of the teachings found in Buddhism. As a result, recluses desperately sought out those who felt similarly, and a common example of this can be found in Saigyo’s tanka.
Messages, or letters, were originally used as an alternative to verbal communication, and sometimes acted as a means for publicizing one's thoughts in the hope of obtaining approval from others. Letters were also used as a medium for conveying one's innermost feelings that could not be expressed sufficiently through spoken words. Letters were often written with a specific reader or audience in mind, but it cannot be denied that the writer was always aware that someone other than the intended audience may read their writings. There is much meaningless content contained in prose written in letter format, but when letters started to be written without a specific audience in mind by families that did not have an heir to take over the family business, they took on the new narrative role of future reference medium. In Essays in Idleness, the writer longs to find someone who is in agreement, and their lament at the inability to find such a person is plainly obvious.
The act of writing a dialogue requires the ability to look at oneself objectively.},
 pages = {13--24},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {講演　中世文学における対話},
 year = {2008},
 yomi = {コジマ, タカユキ}
}