From Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Chinese Poetry to his Longing for China: A study on Akutagawa’s Chinese Poetry composed around his trip to China
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臺大日本語文研究, 28, 063-084
Journal
臺大日本語文研究
Journal Issue
28
Pages
63-85
Date Issued
2014-12
Date
2014-12
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Abstract
Akutagawa Ryunosuke is not only a writer, but also a classical Chinese scholar, yet his Chinese poetry is little known. Akutagawa’s teacher, Natsume Soseki is well known for his flare in Chinese poetry, having composed 208 poems that was collected and published. In contrast, Akutagawa’s Chinese poems are small in number, and only included in his letters to friends or written on paintings, thus few in the academic field focus on the study of Akutawa’s Chinese poetry.
The amount of research conducted on Akutagawa’s short stories is vast, yet only a few scholars, including Murata Hideaki, Komuro Yoshihiro, Qiu Ya-Fen (China), and Peng Chun-yang (Taiwan), focus their research on Akutagawa’s Chinese poetry. Among them, Qiu Ya-Fen, with her attainments in both Japanese and Chinese literature, has conducted the most thorough study. She organized Akutagawa’s 34 Chinese poems into First Period: 1912~1915 (First High School to “Rashomon”), Second Period: 1917~1919 (the period Akutagawa solidifies his status as a writer), Third Period: (a short period before his trip to China), and the Fourth Period: a long time after his trip to China. The Third Period is the shortest among these four, yet Akutagawa composed 13 Chinese poems in this time, which is almost 40% of the Chinese poems he composed. In contrast, he only wrote 4 poems during the longest period (the Fourth), which accounts to less than 12% of his Chinese poems. This a very significant statistical difference.
In this paper, the writer would focus on Akutagawa’s Third and Fourth Period poems (according to Qiu Ya-Fen’s category), to discuss Akutagawa’s literati interests (paintings) and his interests in China culture, examine his change of heart, and try to explain Akutagawa’s artistic views.
Subjects
芥川龍之介
中國旅遊
中國的憧憬
漢詩
藝術觀
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Chinese trip
Longing for China
Chinese poetry
Artistic views
Type
journal article
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