出版社：The Global Institute for Japanese Studies, Korea University
摘要：In Japanese classical literature, there is almost no work which pays significant attention to disasters. However, the 13th century text Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei depicts five serious disasters which occurred in the last stage of the Heian period, and is therefore a form of disaster literature that was a departure in the Japanese tradition. Pre-modern people understood disaster as the result of an entity that exceeds human intelligence becoming angry and inflicting suffering on a mass scale. They engaged in fortune-telling in order to discover the cause of such disasters. They attempted to calm the superhuman entity, thereby ameliorating the effects of a given disaster. These are the core elements of the conception of disaster in Japanese classical literature. Hojoki however is different, as it does not understand disaster in terms of supernatural causality. Kamo no Chomei said that a disaster is “a Fushigi”, which is a mysterious phenomenon. People cannot explain “Fushigi” by means of language, but he made this attempt. Through his efforts, Hojoki became an iconic classical text, and the prototype of the more modern Japanese conception of disaster.
关键词：Disaster;Hojoki;The Law of Causality;Fortune Telling;Inexpressible
