保田與重郎の初期の文業における美術の影響─古美術と棟方志功に着目して─

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Yasuda Yojuro was a Japanese thinker of the Showa period. As earlier studies have demonstrated, early in his career, Yasuda was greatly affected by Marxism, the German Romantics, and Kinsei-kokugaku. However, these studies have not shown the process behind Yasuda’s growing interest in classical Japanese literature. This article aims to fill this gap by examining his early works, which were focused on this genre. First, it is important to note that Yasuda referred not to Japanese classical literature, but to classical Japanese visual artworks when he wrote about premodern Japan in his early works. Further, he associated classical Japanese visual artworks with his hometown, Nara. His major work about classical Japanese literature, Taikanshijinnogoichininsya was influenced by Munakata Shiko’s woodblock print, Yamatoshiuruwashi. This leads to the conclusion that Yasuda’s interest in classical Japanese literature was greatly affected by visual art.