- 著者
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遠藤 太郎
- 出版者
- 美学会
- 雑誌
- 美学 (ISSN:05200962)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.73, no.1, pp.37-47, 2022 (Released:2023-09-28)
Yasuda Yojuro was a Japanese thinker of the Showa period. As earlier studies have
demonstrated, early in his career, Yasuda was greatly affected by Marxism, the German
Romantics, and Kinsei-kokugaku. However, these studies have not shown the process
behind Yasuda’s growing interest in classical Japanese literature. This article aims to fill
this gap by examining his early works, which were focused on this genre.
First, it is important to note that Yasuda referred not to Japanese classical
literature, but to classical Japanese visual artworks when he wrote about premodern
Japan in his early works. Further, he associated classical Japanese visual artworks
with his hometown, Nara. His major work about classical Japanese literature,
Taikanshijinnogoichininsya was influenced by Munakata Shiko’s woodblock print,
Yamatoshiuruwashi. This leads to the conclusion that Yasuda’s interest in classical
Japanese literature was greatly affected by visual art.