江戸期の養生法と川端康成『眠れる美女』、 ガブリエル ガルシア マルケスGabriel García Márquez 『わが悲しき娼婦たちの思い出』（Memoria de mis pustas tristes）

Abstract

This paper focuses on the erotic and sexual relationship between elderly men and young women as a literary subject in novels by the Japanese author Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972) and by the Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) as well as on possible roots and parallels in premodern Japanese texts on medicine and sexuality. The earliest example for texts of this kind is Ishinpō 『医心方』 (Prescriptions from the Heart of Medicine, 984), dealing with “correct” sexual practices as a means of prolonging the rulers’ life in health.