著者

郭 立欣 GUO LIXIN

出版者

名古屋大学大学院人文学研究科図書・論集委員会

雑誌

名古屋大学人文学フォーラム (ISSN:24332321)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.387-402, 2020-03-31

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa, as an overseas journalist of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, traveled to China from late March to early July 1921, and wrote down tihe experience in "Travels in China". "China" was a consistent theme of Akutagawa's literature, and his "Sinophilia" laid a solid foundation of his creation in the early period. However, Contrary to the characteristics of the early period, Akutagawa's works after his tour in China showed realism beyond the realm of mere interests. The experience in China brought about an obvious change in the style of his works mentioned above, and after his traveling around the Jiangnan region, besides his consistent word of criticism about China, Akutagawa began to express his disgust of the Jiangnan city as denied by himself that he was a "sinophile". On the other hand, Akutagawa highly valued the city, Soochow, which was recorded in the chapter: "Travels in Jiangnan". Based on the background, in order to furtherly understand the change in Akutagawa's views about China, considering the novelty and greatness of China in the 10th year of t he Republic in the eyes of one Japanese journalist lived in Taisho 10, and as a novelist, Akutagawa's view about the real China, which was the origin of Chinese poetry and Nanga, and the stage of many novels, played a key role in this study, meanwhile, the importance of Soochow should also be considered in priority. It should be noted that the previous research so far has not paid much attention to his travels in Soochow. This paper based on "Travels in China", which Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote when he visited China, a country at a historical turning point, and focused on the peculiarities of Soochow emerging from his Jiangnan experience to have an insight into the position of Soochow in his views. The experiences during his travel, the description about Soochow and the impressions he made, all that recorded in "Travels in China" were not only a part of his tour in China, but also one aspect about the impression of China that writer himself and Japanese society had. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper was to clarify part of the changes in Akutagawa's impressions of China by deciphering the representation of Soochow, which was regarded as the special one in his Jiangnan experience.