An Inquiry into “A Crime of Society”: Tokutomi Soho, Morita Shiken, Higuchi Ichiyō

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  • 「社会の罪」の探索
  • 「社会の罪」の探索 : 徳富蘇峰、森田思軒、樋口一葉
  • 「 シャカイ ノ ツミ 」 ノ タンサク : トクトミソホウ 、 モリタシケン 、 ヒグチ イチヨウ
  • ――徳富蘇峰、森田思軒、樋口一葉――

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<p>Following the publication of Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shosestsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel), the late 1880s to the 1890s was a period dominated by realism in the Japanese novel. Tokutomi Soho's view of the novel, however, differed from that of Shōyō. Around 1890, Soho asserted that the introduction of Victor Hugo's viewpoint would lead to a renewal of Japanese literature. Soho's assertion, supported by Morita Shiken's article Shakai no tsumi (“A Crime of Society”), obtained wide support in literary circles, stimulating writers to produce a new kind of novel. This new movement later came to fruition in the novels of Higuchi Ichiyō. A reconsideration of the literary activity surrounding “A Crime of Society” helps to shed new light on the connection between Soho and Ichiyō, two writers who, although generally assumed to be unrelated, can actually both be placed firmly within the sphere of influence of “A Crime of Society.”</p>

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