writer. He belongs to the New Romantics in the early stage, and his later works show the tendency of Realism. During the period of Japanese War of aggression from 1931 to 1945, Mimei Ogawa mostly took Japanese aggression as the stage to write the wartime state in his fairy tales. Especially after the outbreak of the Japanese War of aggression against China, the strict regulation of culture was implemented in Japan. Mimei Ogawa wrote and praised the war many times in the fairy tales, which clearly showed his high nationalistic sentiment. Through a detailed textual analysis of Mimei Ogawa’s fairy tales published during the“Fifteen Years’ War”, this paper explores the specific expression of war consciousness in Mimei Ogawa’s works. Then from the author's educational background and the social environment of Japan during the war, this paper discusses the causes of the war consciousness in Mimei Ogawa's fairy tales.
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