著者
遠藤 太良
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.70, no.1, pp.73-84, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)

Yasuda Yojuro (1910–1981) was a Japanese thinker from the Showa period. He is famous for his literary criticism, and he also wrote a lot of art criticism, for example, Taimamandara and Nihon no bijutushi. In his literary criticism, Yasuda mostly wrote about classic Japanese literature, but in his art criticism, he wrote about not only Japanese classics but also contemporary Western art. This article aims to reconsider Yasuda’s ideas through an examination of his art criticism that previous research has hardly considered. First, I reveal Yasuda’s view of art through an examination of his famous literary criticism Taikanshijin no Goitininsya and his art criticism Saigyo to Dufy. Then, I compare Yasuda’s art criticism in 1942 and Kindai no chokoku, which was a round- table discussion in 1942 that included many famous literary scholars in Japan. Finally, I conclude that Yasuda’s ideas were not the most ultranationalistic of the time that previous research has regarded his ideas as, but more international than that of his contemporary literary scholars.