The Threefold Self-Censorship in Matsumoto Seichō's “Hikki Genkō”:

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  • 松本清張「筆記原稿」をめぐる三重の自己検閲
  • 松本清張「筆記原稿」をめぐる三重の自己検閲 : 忘却の覚書の忘却
  • マツモト セイチョウ 「 ヒッキ ゲンコウ 」 オ メグル ミエ ノ ジコ ケンエツ : ボウキャク ノ オボエガキ ノ ボウキャク
  • ――忘却の覚書の忘却――
  • The Forgotten Memorandum of the Lost Memory

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<p>Matsumoto Seichō's forgotten work “Hikki Genkō” (Transcribed Manuscript), published in Shōsetsu Kōen in September 1957, has never been discussed by scholars and critics, for it has not been included in his complete works nor has it been published in a book form to date. This essay examines the notion of the “impiety,” involved in the obscure status of the work, referring to aspects of censorship in media (Asahi Shinbun, Shōsetsu Kōen, Shinsō, Kasutori Zassi) at the time of its publication, during the occupation of Japan by the United States, and during the World War II. While, on the surface, “Hikki Genkō” appears to conform to the social norms of the post-war period, it is arguably a novel that, in its emphasis on the media's negotiations with the Imperial Family, “unconsciously” points to the forces that prescribe people to obey and serve the Emperor and the Imperial Family as they had done before the end of the war. As a device that foregrounds the continued self-censorship and the repression of debates on matters related to the Emperor and the Imperial Family, the novel works as an agent that transforms the apparatus for censorship, ingrained with the memory of the repression of the imagination, into a symbol that liberates it.</p>

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