Japanese Literature

In Search of Lost Texts: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Global Japonism

Masahiro Nishimura

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 1-10
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_1

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In nineteenth-century Western culture there was a fad for Japanese art called Japonism which was greatly influential in the formation of stereotypical images of Japan. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was one of those who dealt with the question of how the Japanese should meet such images. In his unpublished manuscripts, referring to European, American, and Asian discourses of Japonism, Akutagawa introduces a variety of interpretations over complicated and contradictory representations of Japan. This article considers the writer's position in this discursive arena in terms of “something conceptually new.”

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Beyond the Dawn of Death: Riichi Yokomitsu's “Hanazono-no-shisō” and a French Film El Dorado

Taiki Tomozoe

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 11-22
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_11

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“Hanazono-no-shisō,” Riichi Yokomitsu's short story, was written under the inspiration of Marcel L'Herbier's film El Dorado (1921). The impressionistic tone of El Dorado, for example, is reproduced in the final sentence of the story; “At last death appears all of a sudden on her face like a beautiful dawn.” This article analyzes the visual images and circular temporal structure of the literary text in terms of intertextual relations between fiction and film.

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Meteorological Imagery in Kenji Miyazawa's Haru-to-shura, Part 3

Chinatsu Maki

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 23-35
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_23

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The aim of article is to analyze meteorological images in the two poems from Kenji Miyazawa's poetry collection Haru-to-shura, Part 3. In “Haru-no-kumo-ni-taisuru-aimainaru-giron,” low pressure is personified as a lover. In “Kengishi-no-kumo-ni-taisuru-statement,” clouds are metaphorically figured as sexually attractive women when they are meteorologically observed. In this way Miyazawa experimented with a peculiar unification of poetry and science.

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The Mutation of Mitsuo Ōe's Mechanical Imagery

Mayumi Torii

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 36-46
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_36

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Mitsuo Ōe was a proletariat poet who started his career in the 1920s. He was known for his obsession with machinery which he regarded as something organic and divine. Although Ōe wrote some pro-war poems in wartime, his sensitive depictions of individual existence with images of machinery made it more than mere propaganda. This article describes the poet's profile through the change of the way of representing machinery in his works.

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The 70th Summer Forum of the JLA Kokugo Division:

How the Third Term Makes the Act of Reading Valuable: The Third Term Theory and Haruki Murakami's Novel Kishidanchō-goroshi

Yasuko Komori

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 47-57
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_47

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The Meridian:

The Third Term Theory and Takehiko Saigō's Literary Study

Mayu Takahashi

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 58-59
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_58

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At the Close of the Heisei Period: A Note of the 70th Summer Forum of the JLA Kokugo Division

Junya Tonooka

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 60-61
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_60

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Kojiki, Nihon-shoki, Manyō-shū, and Japonism

Sayaka Inoue

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 62-63
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_62

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Reading:

Reading the Popular Edition of Ruishō-shū by Yoshida-Shōin: The Construction of His Image

Yoshinori Ono

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 64-68
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_64

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Reviews:

Ayako Moroi, Court Women and Literature in the Age of the Fujiwara Regency

Nari Nakamura

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 70-71
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_70

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Naoko Tanaka, The Inheritance of Science and Knowledge in the Muromachi Period: A Pursuit of Orthodoxy in the Transitional Period

Naoko Yamada

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 72-73
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_72

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Yōsuke Kikuchi, ed., Kitagawa-Utamaro's Three Illustrated “Kyōka” Poetry Collections, Ehon-mushi-erami, Momochidori-kyōka-awase, and Shiohi-no-tsuto

Satoshi Makino

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 74-75
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_74

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Jun Shimizu, the Horror Academia, ed., Kyōka Izumi and “Yōkai” Apparitions

Keiko Suzuki

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 76-77
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_76

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Yōhei Kobori, Katai Tayama: The Creation of His Works

Makoto Goi

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 78-79
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_78

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Holca Irina, Tōson Shimazaki: Open Texts, Media, Others, and Gender

Yoshiaki Ōida

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 80-81
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_80

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Miharu Nakamura, The Semiotics of “Originals”: A Filmic Dimension of Japanese Literature

Tomoyuki Kidono

2018 Volume 67 Issue 12 Pages 82-84
Published: December 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.12_82

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