Tenno System in the "Recurrence to Japan" : Re-reading of "Niji-o-ou-hito"(the Person who Chases the Rainbow) and "Ten-ni-Ikaru"(Anger towarad Heaven); and "Nisshin Senso Ibun(Harada Jukichi's Dream)"(Japanese Literature and Tenno System The Part of Literature,<Feature Articles>The Reports from the 44th Conference of Japanese Literature Association)

Amo Hisayoshi

doi:10.20620/nihonbungaku.39.3_32

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<日本への回帰>における天皇制 : 「虹を追ふひと」「天に怒る」再読、そして「日清戦争異聞(原田重吉の夢)」(日本文学と天皇制,文学の部,<特集>日本文学協会第44回大会報告)
<日本への回帰>における天皇制--「虹を追ふひと」「天に怒る」再読,そして「日清戦争異聞(原田重吉の夢)」〔含討論〕
ニホンエノカイキニオケルテンノウセイニジオオフヒトテン

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By reading "Niji-o-ou-hito" and "Ten-ni-Ikaru" for a second time, I evaluate the author's consciousness of the period (rather than his consciousness of his own age), and the way he directed himself toward the "recurrence to Japan." "Eisei-rinne"(ever-lasting reincarnation) and "Shinsei-taiken"(new-birth experience) are reversed into "Shukumei"(fate) and "Chojin-shiso"(superhuman thoughts) found in "Ten-ni-Ikaru." Written in the style of "dialogues" and "monologues," the work includes in its structure the self-contradiction of the senses of congruity and incongruity toward Japan and the orient (Asia), and the illusion of Occident as the boundless "Higan." This self-contradiction is found in his attitude toward "Tenno and Royal family" as well. In "Nisshin Senso Ibun(Harada Jukichi's Dream)," a criticism to spot the national evil design and a critical attitude toward the systems brought by Japanese modernization are found. But, how much does the criticism mean in his sense of fate as cultural elegance ? Sakutaro's self-contradiction should be discussed, while illustrating the meaning of his attitude in which he expresses in his poems the fate that weirdly refuses to leave him as if it were a physiological phenomenon.

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Japanese Literature

Japanese Literature 39 (3), 32-42, 1990

Japanese Literature Association