「文章道」と[トク]木 : 文体についての一感想
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Zenji Iwamoto wrote an essay "Bunsho-Do" (the Way of Writing) for the first number of the Bungaku-Kai, a literary magazine published from 1893 to 1898. He was to have been the chief editor of this magazine, but was denied the post by Tokuboku Hirata, who was disappointed with his utilitarian way of thinking contained in "Bunsho-Do." Although Iwamoto and Hirata were both Christians, Hirata could not help being repelled by Iwamoto's attitude towards literature. Hirata could not be content with literature or art being exploited as the means of religious propaganda. He was led to aestheticism under the influence of Tokoku Kitamura, and later by Bin Ueda, who was the purest of the aesthetes of that time. Toson Shimazaki, another important member of the Bungaku-Kai group, had a moralistic tendency, which made a striking contrast to Ueda's aesthetic attitude. Two essays characteristic of the aesthete Uede and the moralist Shimazaki were both printed in the same number of the Bungaku-Kai in 1895. There can be found a cycle of literary attitudes--utilitarian, aesthetic, and moralistic--initiated by Iwamoto and completed by Shimazaki.
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