Nakarai Tosui's Novel, KOSAFUKUKAZE (The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand)

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Nakarai Tosui was one of the most popular newspaper novelists in Tokyo. He became a novel journalist (shosetsukisha) for the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun in 1888. Tosui wrote The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand for Asahi Shinbun from November 1890 to April 1891.The main stage of the novel is the Korean peninsula, and the hero is a half Japanese half Korean boy. Before becoming a novel journalist for the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun, Tosui worked from 1880 to 1887 as a correspondent for the Osaka Asahi Shinbun in Pusan.Tosui put into his novel The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand all of his knowledge about Korean culture and all of his experience as a Korean specialist journalist. He wove into his novel many incidents that took place between Japan and Korea in the late 19th century. The hero Hayashi Masamoto becomes friend with the progressive aristocrats in Seoul, and finally succeeds in concluding the East Asian three countries' alliance and prevents the interference of the Russian empire with Korea. The novel was enjoyed by newspaper readers, and it was published in the form of a book in two volumes, in 1893.Tosui was asked to write a sequel to The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand at the time of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, but this novel was suspended, presumably because Tosui expressed his ideal of the harmonious coexistence of three East Asian countries in The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand, and the sequel went against readers' taste.After the failure of The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand and its sequel, Tosui wrote very little about Korea. Japan's policy toward Asia was now moving in a completely opposite direction to Tosui's ideal, towards the invasion by force of Asian countries.
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Nakarai Tosui's Novel, KOSAFUKUKAZE (The Wind Blowing Yellow Sand)

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