著者

山下 英一

出版者

Historical Society of English Studies in Japan

雑誌

英学史研究 (ISSN:03869490)

巻号頁・発行日

no.20, pp.137-149, 1987

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Nobushige Amenomori sent his paper "War and the Japanese Women" to the Atlantic Monthly in 1905 but it was not published and forwarded to W. E. Griffis so that it might be recommended to some other publisher. But it was left unpublished. The imaginable reason for the unpublished paper was that Amenomori died in 1905 when he wanted to publish his paper.<BR>When this paper was written, the war had broken out between Russia and Japan. His aim to write this paper was that he wished Japan to win the war and to inspire American people with the spiritual background of the Japanese women who carried out their duty at home as mother, wife, and daughter.<BR>Amenomori emphasized the opposite aspects of the Japanese women from those who such foreign writers as Lafcadio Hearn and Alice M. Bacon described from the view of aestheticism and subjection. And he also considered a Japanese woman not as some idealized person but as a human being. He thought Japanese patriotism came from the respect and loyalty to the Emperor and the imperial family and that Japan must be much stronger among other nations with the knowledge of Western civilization. His final dream in life was to see that the Orient and the Occident would be united into world peace.