著者

楊 琇媚

出版者

国文学研究資料館

雑誌

国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:03877280)

巻号頁・発行日

no.28, pp.139-160, 2005-03-01

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Ootsuyama Kunio pointed out that "From Taisho 3, the internal ethical center of Mushanokouji shifted greatly from that of a "naturalist" who prided himself on strength and freedom, to a "humanist" who sought to align himself with love. One external cause for this was no doubt the occurrence of World War One" (Mushanokouji Saneatsu Ron, June Showa 49). In addition, he writes that Mushanokouji's anti-war position is eloquently stated in seven works beginning with Kare ga Juusan no Toki (Taisho 3), and if on top of these his various opinions were included, he could be said to be the writer most deeply involved with World War One.Clearly, in a time where people were drunk on the new wealth brought into their daily lives due to the economic prosperity from WWI, and when Mushanokouji also entered into the high point of his life, his focused anti-war stance deserves attention. However, the creation of the "new village" with no-war and peace as its foundation and his move away from it, along with his trip to Europe and the United States, that is, following the larger chapters in experience in Mushanokoji's life, he stepped away from the fiercely anti-war attitude held during WWI, and had become a war sympathizer with the self-published work Daitoua Sennsou Shikan and the play Sanshou.This collapse in Mushanokouji's position regarding war has been looked at by critics such as Ootsuyama Kunio and Honda Shuugo.However, the problem this presentation seeks to bring up is that, although Mushanokouji is displaying a break with his position on war, has in fact his conception of war changed all that much?This presentation will therefore look at two works, the play Aru Shounen no Yume, thought to be the most representative work from his anti-war pieces, and Daitoua Sennsou Shikan, seen as being his most sympathetic to war, in order to examine the essence of his thinking on war. Based on this, the presenter will attempt to make clear the reason for Mushanokouji's shift in his attitude towards war.