Miyazawa Kenji's Singing Landscape : "The Wind Child Matasaburo"

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This essay analyzes the story "Kaze no Matasaburo" (The wind Child Matasaburo) by Miyazawa Kenji within a theoretical framework of 'landscape in literature'. It represents a part of a larger research project called "Narratology of the Japanese Literary Landscape", which tries to explore indigenous concepts of landscape description and its function in the modern Japanese novel. Through a detailed critical analysis of Miyazawa Kenji's famous story the study challenges Karatani Kojin's paradigm of 'discovery of landscape' by Japanese writers in the Meiji period. Kenji's poetic style experiments with a variety of onomatopoeia, employing them in a highly original, even idiosyncratic ways. He creates a unique blend of inner/outer landscape that can not be defined by Karatani's 'imported models of landscape description'. Furthermore, this study considers the literary potential of 'oral' and 'tactile' stylistic expression versus more abstract and conceptual modes, tracing the sources of Kenji's rich onomatopoeia to his rich poetic vision and ancient folklore motifs.
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