Choice And Creation In Cultural Converges

Akudagawa Ryunosuke has extreme high status at Japanese Literary history. It is a quite important factor that he absorbs alternatively, merges ingeniously and innovates between the east and the west, the tradition and the modern culture. Akudagawa inherits the traditional national culture in great breadth and depth. The most remarkable expression is the historical novels which take the half of all his works. He also achieves success in the Japanese traditional literary form, Paiju. Akudagawa's cultural attainment is very few among his contemporary writers. Besides the subject matter and inspiration from Chinese poem and articles, he even came to China in person to experience the long culture of the ancient civilized country. He pays attention to western literature also, and obtains a great deal of quintessence from it. Understanding about modern China and reference from western literature make his creation more modernistic, but this does not mean abandoning the tradition.The historical novel is the best form of merging tradition and modernity, and the combination of the eastern traditional characters in the works with western Christianism peculiarly represents the vital influence of the western civilization on the modern east. He respects tradition, and moreover hopes to increase some factors that grow with time in his own creation. He makes progress, but never forgets to regard tradition as the origin and foundation. This literary spirit of combining oriental with west, traditional with modern literature is worth learning, and especially developing for us in the present global context.