▲　住吉物語絵巻　筑波大学附属図書館所蔵
The Sumiyoshi Monogatari Emaki (Picture Scroll of the Sumiyoshi Tales,) a collection of University of Tsukuba Library
筑波大学の図書館には、たくさんの貴重な古典籍が所蔵されています。
この絵巻は、継子物の代表的な物語である住吉物語に美しい極彩色の絵が添えられたものです。

The University of Tsukuba Library is well stocked with many precious classical items and collections. This picture scroll portrays the Sumiyoshi Tales, which is an outstanding work on step mother/daughter ordeals, annotated by gorgeously colored paintings.

日本の上代から現代までの文学作品や作家を研究します。
Studies cover the Japanese literary works and writers ranging from the ancient times to the contemporary.

日本文学コースでは、奈良時代から現代にいたる豊かな日本文学の展開を広く学びます。コースには各時代を専門とする教員がそろっていますので、授業を通して、幅広い知見を得ることができます。それとともに、自分で研究対象とする作品や作家を選び、問題を設定し、課題に取り組む力を身につけてゆきます。問題を自分のものとするために、他人の調査や読みに依存するのではなく、目と手を使って調べ、第一歩を踏み出すことができるよう研究を重ねます。
個々の作品や作家の研究を通して、その時代の文化や人のありかたを探求してゆくことは、普遍的な、人間性とは何なのかを考えるための大切な営みです。
Area of Japanese Literature provides an opportunity for students to gain a broad overview of how the Japanese literature has evolved since the Nara Era to the contemporary. The Area’s faculty members comprise a full set of specialists on the respective times, thus students are able to acquire diverse knowledge and insights through this class. Along with that, students will select a certain literary work and a writer as the subjects of their studies, set up specific tasks, and keep developing their capability of resolving the bottlenecks lying ahead. Studies ought to be consistently pursued not depending on the studies or findings of others, but using the eyes and hands of their own, all with a view to taking the first step towards the goal of mastering the study tasks.
It is to be noted that studies of the selected literary work and writer would take you to reveal and figure out the situations of the culture and people of the relevant times, and that would constitute an activity of great significance, i.e., to turn to a universal query into the nature and characteristics of human beings.

Students can actually see and grab the books crafted and bound in traditional Japanese ways, and learn those unique calligraphy letters called Hentai Gana, transmuted kana letters. The benefit of that is you then have the capability of comprehending those works of deformed calligraphy letters which you frequently see in museums. 
The experience to write down graduation dissertation in which students study into a certain specific literary work which up to now has been read by many generations of people, and go through the process of figuring out the implications of setting up study tasks at their own initiatives is sure to form a valuable asset for students, which will be drawn upon for the rest of life.

開設している主な授業 Subjects Offered

1年次生 1st year students	日本・アジア領域入門導入基礎演習Ｉ 日本文学概論
2年次生以降 専門科目 2nd year and subsequent year students – specialty subjects	日本文学史 日本文学講読1～8 日本文学演習1～8 日本文学特講1〜2

教員

茂野　智大 Tomohiro Shigeno	日本上代文学、萬葉享受史学 Early Japanese Literature, Reception History of Man'yōshū
馬場　美佳 Mika Baba	日本近代文学、日本現代文学 Modern Japanese Literature, Contemporary Japanese Literature
吉森　佳奈子 Kanako Yoshimori	日本文学史、日本古典文学 History of Japanese Literature, Classical Japanese Literature

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