Past vs Present in Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Kawabata Yasunari's novel "Thousand Crane" occurred during the postwar Japan, the transformation period, there was a struggle between maintaining Japanese tradition and westernization, or "modernization". Thus, this background reflects the past and present major conflict in the novel. This struggle is expressed cleverly and clearly in the role of the whole story. Because they are faced with cultural change and death, and they have to decide whether to proceed, accept changes or stay in the past.

Kawabata Yasunari's Thousand Cranes (1952): Yasunari Kawabata is the first Japanese writer who won a literary novel and the Nominating Committee said it was one of the main factors in their decision-making process, in particular. In an orphanage, we seek to show some of our family members in his life to his father's mistress. Things quickly collapsed. Shuhei Ooka "Fire of the Plain (1954): World War II had no effect on the creative area of ​​Japan, and the flames of the plains completely contained the feelings and experience of soldiers. The main character, Toura (Tomaura), was arrested by his company and found to have been trapped in the jungle of the Philippines. As a result, progress of cockroaches brought about unpleasant results.

Yasunari Kawabata's novel "Thousand Crane" represents the movement from Western tradition to postwar Japanese tradition to westernization. Kawabata Yasushi enriched his novel with a complicated relationship between children and parents. And I revealed the loss of traditional houses. Ironically, Kawabata then depicts how they use their hatred and jealousy to manipulate it to achieve their evil motives.