- 著者
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             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.