Yasushi Inoue And China

The literature of Yasushi Inoue began to be translated and introduced in the early of 1960s,brought to the climax in the middle of1980s. Inoue's literature in many aspects, of which some made a systematic note on the author's life and writing, others made an inquiry into his writing art, but the majority were individual research about his works.Yasushi Inoue was influenced by Chinese classical culture when he was still a youngster, and took an intensive interesting in China and Chinese historical culture. He wrote a large number of historical novels, poems and essays. In this article, by way of the theory of reception and the theory of imagologie , the writer makes his research from the angle of influence-reception and on the base of the achievements of domestic study, in order to explore and sort out the relationship between Inoue and Chinese historical and biographical literature, which isn't made a systematic exposition at present. This article mainly research three ones as follow: first, probing the relationship between Inoue and Chinese historical and biographical literature in subject, mind and art; second, making a concrete discuss on the relationship between Inoue's novel Confucius and Lunyu, and the reception of Inoue from Lunyu; last, by means of an analysis of Inoue's works, pointing out the traits of his Chinese image, and the relationship between the image and the special history and the environmental culture of text.