Session 19—Midterm 01
Topics for this session
Midterm 01
Special notes
I have dropped Genji from our schedule so that you do not have to prep the Genji poems at the same time you are preparing for Midterm 01.
I have added this reading assignment: Hisamatsu on Yugen (bSpace), through to the end of page 40. It might be lighted tested for its main points.
The test will have two parts and you will have the full session although it will be designed to be closely to a 35-40 minute test.
In part one you will be tested on the information that has been indicated in green, bold face type since the beginning of the term. This information is more of less of three types: about poets, cultural information, grammar points. It is likely that I will write questions on two of these three categories. Please remember that some of the green, bold face type directs you to web sites.
In part two, I will give you five poems you have not seen before and ask you to place each in one of the books of love and say why you made that decision. (There will be one and only one for each book.) It is likely that I will provide vocabulary so that you don't have to look things up and I don't have to find weird minor poems that I'm sure won't be example poems in dictionaries. They will not be Kokin poems but reviewing the PDF on those love poems might be helpful. This part tests your ability to read and understand a poem, and understand its poetic point well enough to have an opinion on where to place it. Incorrect claims might deduct points so please don't try to make something up; write what you are sure of. (Example: "This is a Book II poem because of the passion is shows." That is just too generic a statement and could be said without understanding the poem at all. Better: "This is a Book II poem because the waves crashing against the shore represents the persistent attention that the man is showing towards the woman and Book II poems are about, in part, the strong and strengthening interest between two people.")
Poems originally scheduled for this session (I am leaving them here as a just-in-case scenario but you do NOT have to prepare them in any way at all)
- 30A 心あてにそれかとぞ見る白露の光そへたる夕顔のはな
- 30B 寄りてこそそれかとも見めたそがれにほのぼの見つる花の夕顔
- 30C 優婆塞が行なふ道をしるべにて来む世も深き契りたがふな
- 30D 前の世の契り知らるる身の憂さに行く末かねて頼みがたさよ
- 30E いにしへもかくやは人のまどひけむわがまだ知らぬしののめの道
- 30F 山の端の心も知らで行く月はうはの空にて影や絶えなむ
Details
30A 心あてにそれかとぞ見る白露の光そへたる夕顔のはな
こころあて | に | それ | か | と | ぞ | みる | しらつゆ | の | ひかり | そへ | たる | ゆふがほ | の | はな
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）
30B 寄りてこそそれかとも見めたそがれにほのぼの見つる花の夕顔
より | て | こそ | それ | か | と | も | みめ | たそがれ | に | ほのぼの | み | つる | はな | の | ゆふがほ
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）
30C 優婆塞が行なふ道をしるべにて来む世も深き契りたがふな
うばそく | が | おこなふ | みち | を | しるべ | にて | こ | む | よ | も | ふかき | ちぎり | たがふ | な
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）
30D 前の世の契り知らるる身の憂さに行く末かねて頼みがたさよ
まへ | の | よ | の | ちぎり | しら | るる | み | の | うさ | に | ゆく | すゑ | かねて | たのみ | がたさ | よ
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）
30E いにしへもかくやは人のまどひけむわがまだ知らぬしののめの道
いにしへ | も | かく | や | は | ひと | の | まどひ | けむ | わ | が | まだ | しら | ぬ | しののめ | の | みち
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）
30F 山の端の心も知らで行く月はうはの空にて影や絶えなむ
やま | の | は | の | こころ | も | しら | で | ゆく | つき | は | うは | の | そら | にて | かげ | や | たえ | な | む
Collection: 『源氏物語』「夕顔」
Author: 紫式部（むらさきしきぶ）