八木泽元与他的中国戏曲研究

Yagisawa and His Research on Chinese Opera

八木泽元是日本现代著名的中国戏曲研究者。他的博士论文《明代剧作家研究》(1959),以内阁文库所藏明人文集为中心收集材料,较为全面地考述了八位明代重要剧作家的生平,在明代剧作家研究方面,开风气之先,并以此确立他在中国戏曲史研究领域的地位,为中国学者所熟知。此外,八木泽元所著单篇文章在其逝后集结为论文集《霞城之春》,尚未引起中国学者关注。是集汇总了前书之外的与中国文学相关的研究成果,披露新发现的戏曲文献,考述作家生平,亦颇多创获。如书中《明代藩王剧作家朱宪》一文,即更正前人著录之误,值得关注。

Yagisawa is a renowned Japanese researcher studying Chinese opera. His doctoral thesis A Study of the Playwrights of the Ming Dynasty （1959） was based on a collection of materials from the Ming-Dynasty anthologies in the Naikaku Bunko of Japan. It studies the lives of eight prominent playwrights in the Ming Dynasty, and was the first to study the Ming-Dynasty playwrights. Having led the academic trend, Yagisawa is well known in China as holding an important position in the studies of the history of Chinese opera. He published a posthumous anthology The Spring of Xiacheng which contains his other theses on Chinese literature. The anthology has not yet caught the attention of Chinese scholars, though there are many original ideas in it. It shares some newly discovered materials of Chinese opera, and makes research into the lives of many playwrights. ＂Zhu Xianjie, the Seigneur Playwright of the Ming Dynasty＂, for example, is important as it corrects some mistakes in former records.