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8 Literature Lecture Notes ?001 by
Mineharu Nakayama
Key
words: Kojiki, Nihonshoki, Manyooshuu, Waka, Tanka, Haiku, Tale of Genji,
Murasaki Shikibu, Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon, Tale of Heike, mono-no aware,
mujo, Basho, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Ihara
Saikaku, Broken Commandment, Shimazaki Toson, Mori Ogai, Natsume Soseki,
Rashoomon, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, The Makioka Sisters, Tanizaki Junichiro, Dazai
Osamu, Snow Country, Kawabata Yasunari, Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Mishima
Yukio, Shiga Naoya, Abe Kobo, Kita Morio, Endo Shuusaku, Oe Kenzaburo, Romantic
novels, British, Naturalistic novels, French, I novels
searching its soul
712
- Kojiki
Poems
8th
c Manyoo-shuu
western
- master the nature; JPN - nature - a part of man, man and nature is one
Hitomaro - long poem, Lady Ootomo - short
Tanka
- 31 syllables - 5, 7, 5,(1st person)
7, 7 (2nd person)
Haiku
- 5, 7, 5
1644-94- Basho, poetic diary - wandering in the
nature, Hiraizumi - Minamoto
Hagiwara Sakutaro - modern poetic tradition to
Japanese
Contemporary
Tawara
Moeko
Prose
Novel - Lady Murasaki - characters' psychology - very
modern; concubines of Genji
War tale
with Biwa (late 12th c) - chronicles of Heike - very Buddhist and
Japanese
12th c poet, novelist - > Noh -Zeami
16th C - Europe - new ideas, samurai and peasants,
townsmen (persists)
Ukiyo
- floating world - commercial
Saikaku
(1641-93) - tales, esthetic, passionate, pleasure
1906
The Broken Commandment by Shimazaki
Tooson - use of modern language
Mori Oogai (1862-1922)The Dancing Girl (1890) - I Novel
The Wild Geese (1911-13)
Natsume Sooseki (1867-1916)Kokoro (1914)
modernization
destroy the tradition (Sorekara
"And then" 1909)
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1867-1927) - "brilliant
short story stylist"
Rashoomon, Kesa and Morita, Hell Screen
Shiga Naoya (1883 - ) Shirakaba-ha, short novels
Kinosaki
nite (1917)
Anya
Kooro (1921-37)
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) - "wrote in the
classical tradition attempting to preserve tradition", next generation of
Soseki
The Makioka Sisters (1943-8)-miyabi,
monono aware, family affairs
Some Prefer Nettles (East vs West)
British and French influences
Naturalistic (Shimazaki) <-> Mori (Roman-Shugi) and Natsume (ind.)
I Novel (Early Taisho Period) Shin Risoo-shugi
(Shirakaba-ha) (Shiga, etc.) <-> fiction <-> Shin Roman-shugi
(Tanizaki etc. ), Shin genjutsu-shugi (Akutagawa)
Dazai Osamu (1909-48) - "post WWII
dissolute" - depression - suicide
Setting Sun (1947), No Longer Human (1948)
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) - "poor beauty of
Japan/ a sensualist and perceptionalist", very female style, Miyabi,
Monono aware, suicide
1968
won the Nobel Prize for Literature (3yrs after Tanizaki's death)
Snow Country (1935-47) 12 yrs revision
1972
- suicide (emptiness)
psychological
Mishima Yukio (1925-70) - "dedicated
genius"
samurai,
restoration of Emperor, suicide (seppuku), dramaticize the situation, poet-
beauty
Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)
Sea of Fertility (1966-70)
Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-84) - The River Ki(1959), The
Doctor's Wife (1966)
Abe Kobo (1923-95?) - cosmopolitan, theater
Suna-no onna (1962)
Oe Kenzaburo (1935- ) - modern man, symbolic -son
Kojin-tekina Taiken (1964)
1994
won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Ishikawa Jun
Inoue Yasushi
Shiba Ryootaroo
Endo Shuusaku
Kita Morio
Matsumoto Seichoo
Murakami Haruki
Banana Yoshimoto, etc.