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Also add to your list: Woman in the Crested Kimo...

2010-08-28T15:43:30.832+09:00

Also add to your list:

Woman in the Crested Kimono: The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family Drawn from Mori Ogai's Shibue Chusai, by Edwin McClellan.

Add this to your Mori Ogai section: -Intro -Okit...

2010-06-20T18:23:04.318+09:00

Add this to your Mori Ogai section:

-Intro

-Okitsu yagoemon no isho (Last Testament of Okitsu Yagoemon; 1st version, 2nd version): I (Yagoemon; commits seppuku; obvious parellels to Nogi’s death);

-Abe Ichizoku: Lord Hosokawa Tadatoshi (dies); O-sen no kata (wife); Rokumaru (Mitsuhisa; Tadatoshi’s heir, young, impetuous, cruel, villainous?); Abe YAichiemon; Abe Gombee; Abe Yagobee; Abe Ichidayuu; Ten’yuu (priest); Tsukamoto Matashichirou (sympathizes with Abe, but takes part in attack, kills Yagobee); Takenouchi Kazumi (leads attack on Abe house; served Tadatoshi; killed); Tanami Gon’emon (leads attack on Abe rear gate); Juudayuu (coward during attack)

-Gojiingahara no katakiuchi (The Vendetta at Gojiingahara; based on 1835 incident)

-Sakai jiken (Incident at Sakai): French soldiers (steal flag; 16 end up dead); Umekichi (kills soldier w/ axe); Sugi kiheita, etc.

-Sanshō dayū (Sanshō the Steward)

-Rekishi sono mama to rekishibanare

-Gyogenki: Yu hsuan chi (poetess, proto-feminist; untamed; becomes nun; asexual tendencies at first; affair with young musician; beheaded); Chung Kwei (Wen; disguised noble and renowned poet); Prime Minister Ling; Li I (wealthy man; takes Hsuan chi as concubine; doesn’t work out); Ohao; Chen (young musician and lover to Hsuan chi; possibly sleeps with her attendant); Lu-chiao (ugly, clever, lusty servant girl to Hsuan Chi; murdered by Hsuan Chi after suspected of having affair with Chen).

-Jiisan baasan: Run (old man; kills man in brawl; banished for 37 yr); Minobe Iori (wife; reunited after 37 yrs)

-Saigo no ikku: Katsuraya Tarobee (sailor condemned to die); Ichi (daughter); Choutarou (son); Toku (daughter); Shougorou (son); evil bureaucrats;

-Takasebune

-Kanzan jittoku: narrator (contemporary Tokyoite); Lu Ch’iu-yin (gov official; suffers from headaches; on way to Tai Chou; visits Hanshan and Jitoku); Mendicant Priest Feng Kan (Zen master); Shih-te; Hanshan; Tao-chiao

-Sahashi jingorō: I; Ieyasu (agrees to spare Jingorou if he kills Amari); Ooji Nobuyasu (son of Ieyasu); Honda Masazumi; Yoshitoshi; Sahashi Gendayuu (cousin); Sahashi Jingorou (kills Hachiya and flees; skilled and clever; disappears; returns 20 yr later as Korean); Hachiya (page found dead); Amari

-Yasui fujin: Yasui Chuuhei (Sokken; great but ugly); Yasui Shoufuu (father); Yasui Bunji (pretty brother, dies young); Sayo (beautiful; volunteers to be Yasui’s bride); Yaeko; Toyo (refuses marriage); Nagakura’s wife

-Tsuge shirōzaemon: Editror; I (Shikata II; son of assassin); Tsuge Shirouzaemon (Shikata; assassin from Okayama); Takei (Shikata’s wife); Yokoi Shounan (progressive politician, assassinated); Ikebe Keita (runs dutch gunnery school; imprisoned); Katsu Yoshikuni; Yokoi’s 2 nephews; Iki Wakasai (Okayama loyalist); Nihoko (Shirouzaemon’s supporter)

-Kuriyama daizen: Takenaka Unemenoshou (); Kurimoto Toshiyasu (Toshiaki’s father); Kuriyama Daizen Toshiaki; Juudayuu (son of Kurahashi; employed by Tadayuki; boy lover?); Kuroda family; Lord Kuroda Uemonnosuke Tadayuki (Toshiaki’s lord and lord of Fukuoka castle; suspected by Toshiaki of fomenting rebellion against Edo; governs badly after taking in Juudayuu); Inoue and Oogo (Tadayuki’s senior retainers)

-Suginohara Shina: I; “dissolute” Date Tsunamune; Hatsuko; Shina; Takao (geisha); Otsuki FUmihiko (scholar)

-Tokō Tahei: I; Miyamoto Musashi; Tokou Tahei (accused of stealing stones; always ready for death); Hosokawa Tadatoshi.

-Saiki Kōi: I; Saiki Koui; Ryuuchi (Koui’s father)

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you mention Nietzsche. I recently read Chapter One...

2008-06-09T10:45:00.000+09:00

you mention Nietzsche. I recently read Chapter One from The Birth of Tragedy, in which he writes: "art derives its continuous development from the duality of the Apolline and Dionysiac." The source of the Apollonean is dreams, while the source of Dionysian is intoxication.

Like Valery he also talks about the ever-swinging pendulum between form and content. Also, see E. Carr's What is History.

-Jimbo

You mention Edgar Allan Poe, which reminds me of a...

2008-06-09T10:41:00.000+09:00

You mention Edgar Allan Poe, which reminds me of a story I read last year: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841). It is one of first detective stories, or locked room mystery stories. Some have intrepreted it as a gay love story.

It is set in set on Rue Morgue in Paris. Madame L'Espanaye is murdered along with her daughter.
C. Auguste Dupin, detective extraordinare, reads about the murder, and volunteers to help solve case. G--- is the police prefect.

It turns out that the murderer is an orangutan, who, saddened at the recent loss of his mate, escapes from the sailor's (his owner) place with a razor, and accidentally kills Madame while trying to shave her (imagining that she was his mate).

There are many witnesses, but none can agree on what they heard, what languages were used. Compare story to Akutagawa's "Yabu no naka."

That is all.
-Ismus

You ever read Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from ...

2008-06-09T10:16:00.000+09:00

You ever read Tales of Ise: Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan, by Helen McCullough? In it she discussess Ariwara Narihira (825-880), about whom very little is known. There is a rare description of him in the Sandai jitsuroku. But other than that, we have to go by what we are told in Kokinshū and Tales of Ise, which are not reliable historical sources.

You mentioned Paul Valery. Have you read "Poetry a...

2008-06-09T10:13:00.000+09:00

You mentioned Paul Valery. Have you read "Poetry and Abstract Thought," from Critical Theory Since Plato?, in which he argues that poetry=abstract thought.

Kant and the Romantics talk about the thought-feeling distinction; Valery (1871-1945) and critics of his time (including Croce, Cassirer, etc.) talk about language as "an actual form of thought and shaper of reality" (introduction).

Here he also makes the distinction between prose and poetry, which he likens to walking ("purposive" language, in Kant`s terms) versus dancing (purposiveless purpose) to a destination.

Also, he writes that the musician has means available which exists for the sole purpose of the art; the poet, in contrast, borrows from the public-- i.e., the poet uses language, which is already corrupted: "Words have passed through so many mouths, so many phrases, so many uses and abuses, that the most delicate precautions must be taken to avoid too much confusion in our minds between what we think and are trying to think, and what dictionaries, authors, and, for that matter, the whole human race since the beginning of language, want us to think" (916).

-Cassidy

Emile Zola? Isn't he the one who wrote the "Prefac...

2008-06-09T00:20:00.000+09:00

Emile Zola? Isn't he the one who wrote the "Preface to the Second Edition of Therese Raquin," in which he pledged his alliance with science, and, responding to the "maidenly" and "churlish and horrified" critics, defended his novel from charges of obscenity?

Was not his (and the Naturalists') goal "to study temperaments and not characters"? Were his characters not soulless, "human animals, nothing more"?

Wasn't he the one who sought to portray detached, scientific "truths" while avoiding overt moral judgment? Didn't Zola deal in human corruption as a surgeon slices into a corpse? "I wrote every scene, even the most impassioned, with scientific curiosity alone."

Didn't he say that there are only two or three good critics, and only these critics "take good care not to pronounce great big empty words like morality and literary decency"?

Didn't he urge writers to bring everything into the light? and that "sincere study, like fire, purifies all things?"

And that "since I have committed the sin of writing one [a preface] because I am a lover of light, I crave the forgiveness of men of intelligence who do not need me to light a lamp for them in broad daylight to help them see clearly."

I would greatly appreciate it, Ryan, if you could answer me these here questions.

Thank you,
Matsuko

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