@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002926,
 author = {岩田, 陽子 and IWATA, Youko},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {35},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, Tsumura Setsuko’s ‘Kuroiushio’ was a historical novel which appeared serially in the ‘Bungei’ from February 1993 to November 1994. The novel portrays a yūjo (prostitute), who was sent into exile to Hachijō-jima island on the charge of arson when she was fifteen-years old. The author Tsumura related that she was attracted to two girls whose names were Toyogiku and Kachō in the ‘Hachijō-jima run in meimeiden’ (A record on exiles of Hachijō-jima island) in the postscript of ‘Kuroiushio’ published by the Kawade shobō shinsha in May 1995. ‘Kuroiushio’ was based on two real yūjo who existed in the late Edo period.
Tsumura portrayed the yūjo of a gold mine in Sado in ‘Uminari’, as a serialized novel in ‘Bungakusha’ from November 1964 and impressed the novelist Niwa Fumio. He commented that the novel was regarded as very authentic by local historians. Tsumura was awarded the 29th joryū bungaku shō in 1990 for ‘Ryūseiu’ which depicted the Boshin war in Japan. It may safely be said that her historical novels have been highly valued. 
In ‘Kuroiushio’, Tsumura again portrays yūjo on an island which is surrounded by the sea thirty years after ‘Uminari’. Both the novels are set on desert islands which were places of exile but the peculiarities of each lands appeared in both novels.
Although the breadwinners were miners in Sado, women supported their family by weaving kitsumugi hachijō ginu (checked yellow silk cloth) which was delivered as a tax. ‘Kuroiushio’ depicted both the women in ‘Yoshiwara’ who sold themselves to men for a living and the women in ‘Hachijō-jima island’ whose status was higher than men’s.
The description of the land of Hachijō-jima island in the literary world of ‘Kuroiushio’, is very important. Tsumura mentioned some twenty materials on ‘Yoshiwara’ and ‘Hachijō-jima island’ in the main references at the end of the book. They seem a key to know how ‘Kuroiushio’ was written. In addition to these bibliographies, I have confirmed the existence of the notes which Tsumura would have used when she wrote the novel. I would like to examine how the worlds of Hachijō-jima island and Yoshiwara were created in ‘Kuroiushio’ by considering these materials.},
 pages = {127--136},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　津村節子が描く八丈島　―「黒い潮」創作ノートの検証―},
 year = {2012},
 yomi = {イワタ, ヨウコ}
}