Mei Yumi's Postwar Japanese Literature

2015-09-05

Author : Hayashi Fumiko
Release : 2015-09-05
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Download or read book Mei Yumi's Postwar Japanese Literature written by Hayashi Fumiko. This book was released on 2015-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar Japanese strived, unsteadily as if about to fall, to live everyday lives and to restore Japan, while suffering from the survivor's guilt. The early postwar novels of Hayashi Fumiko. Three novels of Hayashi Fumiko translated here are related to the early postwar period in Japan. Late Chrysanthemum - Ban'Giku "Late Chrysanthemum" is an ex-geisha's one night story after the war. The main character Kin had a strong will to survive. An ex-geisha had a visitor, who was her ex-lover sometime in the prewar years and desperately needed money. He intrigued to get money from his ex., even by slaughter. How did the ex-geisha rid out of the crisis? Her quick wit worked, which suggests us how to manage a risk in a daily life. In November 1948, 23 Showa, "Late Chrysanthemum" appeared in an extra issue of a literary magazine, the Bungei'Shunju. This is the most important work of Hayashi Fumiko, which is praised for its highly qualified perfection and elaborate description. Downtown - Shita'machi "Downtown" is a two week story of a female peddler and an ex-soldier after the war. Their relationship finished all of sudden. "Downtown" appeared in April 1949, 24 Showa in an extra issue of a literary magazine, Shosetsu'Shincho. The literary magazine has been published monthly since September 1947 from The Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd. which was founded in 1896. Floating clouds - Uki'gumo "Floating Clouds" is mainly a five year story. The storyline, however, extends from 1939 in Japan, during the years since 1943 in French Indochina, and the postwar period in 1945 to 1949 in Japan. The author describes changes in people's feelings after the war, while following the trajectories of men and women before and after the war. This novel can be seen as Hayashi Fumiko's compilation. "Floating clouds" is compiled in a book and published in April 1951, 26 Showa, which is considered to be the last novel of Hayashi Fumiko. The author died suddenly of heart attack at home at about 11:00 pm, June 28 in 1951, 26 Showa, at the age of 48. Enjoy!

Forget Me Not Girls' Love: Mei Yumi's 1930s Japanese Literature

2019-01-15 Fiction

Author : Yoshiya Nobuko
Release : 2019-01-15
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Forget Me Not Girls' Love: Mei Yumi's 1930s Japanese Literature written by Yoshiya Nobuko. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoshiya Nobuko, born on Januay 12, 29 Meiji, 1896, in Nīgata and died on July 11, 48 Shōwa, 1973, in Kamakura at the age of 78, is a Japanese female novelist active from the 1920s to the early 1970s. She, in her lesbian sexual orientation and from her experience of the same-sex relationship with Monma Chiyo for over 50 years, depicted schoolgirls' friendship, which was not identical with but emotionally very close to the same-sex orientation. In 14 Taishō, 1925, she began the magazine entitled as "Kuro'Shōbi (Black Rose)" although she discontinued it in eight months. Girl subscribers of her magazine and girl fans of her novels dreamed of the modest, fair, and graceful life style and girls' friendship as written in her novels. "FORGET ME NOT" was serialized in the girls' magazine, "Shōjo'no Tomo" which literally means girls' friend, in issues from April to December in 7 Shōwa, 1932. While reading this novel, you will clearly see what the Japanese schoolgirls looked like in the early 1930s, and also the human tradition in a household and in the society at that time, along with the ideal male personalities for the author. Japanese schoolgirls' friendship and mutual confidence survived WW II. There still something traditional remains in their innermost feelings. Enjoy !

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon

2012 History

Author : Michael K. Bourdaghs
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Download or read book Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon written by Michael K. Bourdaghs. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audiences to assume various identities, reflecting the country's uncomfortable position under American hegemony and its uncertainty within ever-shifting geopolitical realities. In the first English-language study of this phenomenon, Michael K. Bourdaghs considers genres as diverse as boogie-woogie, rockabilly, enka, 1960s rock and roll, 1970s new music, folk, and techno-pop. Reading these forms and their cultural import through music, literary, and cultural theory, he introduces readers to the sensual moods and meanings of modern Japan. As he unpacks the complexities of popular music production and consumption, Bourdaghs interprets Japan as it worked through (or tried to forget) its imperial past. These efforts grew even murkier as Japanese pop migrated to the nation's former colonies. In postwar Japan, pop music both accelerated and protested the commodification of everyday life, challenged and reproduced gender hierarchies, and insisted on the uniqueness of a national culture, even as it participated in an increasingly integrated global marketplace. Each chapter in Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon examines a single genre through a particular theoretical lens: the relation of music to liberation; the influence of cultural mapping on musical appreciation; the role of translation in transmitting musical genres around the globe; the place of noise in music and its relation to historical change; the tenuous connection between ideologies of authenticity and imitation; the link between commercial success and artistic integrity; and the function of melodrama. Bourdaghs concludes with a look at recent Japanese pop music culture.

Exporting Japanese Aesthetics

2020-05-04 Art

Author : Tets Kimura
Release : 2020-05-04
Genre : Art
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Download or read book Exporting Japanese Aesthetics written by Tets Kimura. This book was released on 2020-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume draws on a wide range of examples from a multidisciplinary team of scholars exploring transnational, regional and global contexts. Studies include the impact of traditional Japanese theatre and art through to the global popularity of contemporary anime and manga. Under the banner of soft power or Cool Japan, cultural commodities that originate in Japan have manifested new meanings outside Japan. By (re)mapping meanings of selected Japanese cultural forms, this volume offers an in-depth examination of how various aspects of Japanese aesthetics have evolved as exportable commodities, the motivations behind this diffusion, and the extent to which the process of diffusion has been the result of strategic planning. Each chapter presents a case study that explores perspectives that situate Japanese aesthetics within a wide-ranging field of inquiry including performance, tourism, and visual arts, as well as providing historical contexts. The importance of interrogating the export of Japanese aesthetics is validated at the highest levels of government, which formed the Office of Cool Japan in 2010, and which perhaps originated in the 19th century at governmentally endorsed cultural courts at world fairs. Increased international consumption of contemporary Japanese culture provides a much needed boost to Japans weakening economy. The case studies are timely and topical. As host of the 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2025 Osaka Expo, Cool Japan will be under special scrutiny.

Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II

1997 Japanese fiction

Author : Van C. Gessel
Release : 1997
Genre : Japanese fiction
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Download or read book Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II written by Van C. Gessel. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on post World War II Japanese fiction writers. Novelists who participated in literary activity after 1945 shaped the direction of postwar Japanese fiction. Freed from censorship, significant war literature was written in the decade after the conflict. Established writers were able to resume work interrupted by the war and demands to write propaganda. Female authors would emerge to define the new role of their gender in this post-war period.

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