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3. Mansfield and Laurencin Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), French painter belonged to the same generation of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), has been widely loved by Japanese. In Japan (in Nagano Prefecture) there is Marie Laurencin Museum which is only one special museum of her works in the world. One of its displays is a book of short stories written by Katherine Mansfield and illustrated with 16 lithographs made by Marie Laurencin. It was the book published in 1939 and one of the 30 books with signatures of Marie Laurencin herself. Both these two excellent artists have been accepted and loved by many Japanese for more than 70 years. 4. Mansfield and Futabatei It is scarecely known even in Japan that Katherine Mansfield had introduced a Japanese novel for The Athenaeum as the reviewer of fiction in 1920. This book was An Adopted Husband (1906) by Futabatei, translated in English and published in 1919. She invoked to readers that their absurd notions to modern Japanese domesticity would be broken by this presentation and the problem stared was not unlike to one of western society. She also assured them that this novel was a very serious work of art. It seems that this review might have been written because of her continuous deep concern to things Japan and Japonisme, not because of mere exotic and journalistic interest to Japanese novel.
日本ニュージーランド学会の論文
2001-06-23