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Westernization Beauty and Japanese Aesthetics in Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

2023-01-09 15:04:40

"Thousands of cranes introduced the unfamiliar aspects of Japanese culture and geography to Western readers and they compare Japan before and after the Second World War." (Moran) Novel by Kawabata Yasunari "Thousand Crane "was an orphan of the hero's Kikuchi after the war and associated with Mrs. Ota, one of the former mistress of his father, finally killed himself.

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.

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