｢お葬式川柳｣に見る語彙表現の 特徴と心象風景の一断面

The Characteristics of Vocabulary Expression and Imagined Scenery in Funeral Senryu

Most people are reluctant to talk about funerals or death, and therefore it is difficult to determine one’s real thoughts. But in senryu poetry, such thoughts or funeral scenes are astonishingly expressed in an explicit manner. This research thus plans to analyze the characteristics of vocabulary expression in senryu works written with funeral topics and, at the same time, highlight a part of the imagined scenery described through the semantic characteristics and expressions included in such vocabulary expression. At first glance, senryu verse seems to have a simple list of works on various topics. But when they are analyzed from the aspect of vocabulary and the contents of works collected with a common topic, it is clear that they have multiple common features and diverse tendencies, and it can also be seen that they communicate both imagined scenery and people’s common awareness. Therefore, this research plans to achieve the above goals through analyzing processes of categorization and typology by focusing on the vocabulary expression and contents of senryu poetry