On The Characteristics Of Takeda Taijun’s Creation

This paper is based on "Takeda Taijun’s creative characteristics in immediate post-war time". Takeda is a writer one of the first Japanese postwar writers. In his works, he shows the psychology and regret of an ordinary Japanese soldier.About postwar writers, a large number of Chinese books focus on Shiina Rinzo, Umezaki Haruo, Noma Hiroshi and other writers. More about Takeda’s research is mostly in1990s in Japanese. By reading books about Takeda’s life and his works, I found that although Takeda is not well-known, he is a writer who can’t be ignored. Especially his works created in immediate post-war time, reproduce his experience of the war, and analyze his complex emotions. Although Takeda doesn’t appraise the bad behavior of Japan, we can clearly see Japanese soldiers’mean actions from Takeda’s works.This paper limits the time in "immediate post-war time", because at that time he directly expressed his feelings backlogged during the war. And the works wrote at that time centrally reflected his creative tone and characteristics. Before this, his works are mainly about Chinese ancient literature and folk custom essays, there is no profound meaning. Later works are basically the reproduction of these characteristics.This paper based on previous studies, mainly adopts the text analysis, theory analysis and text translation method, combines the writer and works to study, contacts writer’s life and main characteristics to comprehensive discussion. Through analysis of growth and Takeda’s writing course, I seek to in-depth analyze major works in immediate post-war time, generalize unified features of Takeda’s works, that are authenticity, negativity, religious and repentance.The main content of this paper is composed of three chapters:The first chapter "influence factors of Takeda’s literary characteristics". First of all, that is the influence of the time and environment. Social unrest and the rise and fall of the literary world, profoundly affect the fate of each writer. Secondly, Takeda’s personal life is experienced. When he was a student, he involved in left-wing movements. But finally he couldn’t stand political pressure, dropped out of school. In1937, Japan invaded China, Takeda enlisted in the army. He first came to China as an aggressor, underwent two years experience of the war. In August15,1945, Japan surrendered, Takeda received the news in Shanghai. These experiences became Takeda’s creative material. Finally, Takeda visited China and the world with his wife and friends many times, which made Takeda’s eyes widened.The second chapter is "the creative process of Takeda". In China, research of Takeda is very few. This paper sorts out Takeda’s life in time order. The first stage is during the ten years of war, major works’content is what Takeda saw and heard on the battlefield. The second stage is immediate post-war time (1945-1954), major works’ content is Takeda’s mixed feelings about the defeat. The third stage is after1955,"Forest and Lake" based on the trip of Hokkaido. Main content is about Ainu’s life, marks Takeda began to gradually out of the theme of war, to explore more diverse material.The third chapter "the creative characteristics of Takeda". This chapter is the key part of this paper, analysis Takeda’s woks written in immediate post-war time, and summarizes his writing features. The first point is the authenticity. He put his experience into his works. Takeda is the screenwriter of his works, and he also is the main actor. From the school-days Left-wing Movement to his defeat time, Takeda made all his real experience as the material, and revealed the true feelings. Of course, the appropriate fiction was also existed. The second point is negative, which mainly reflected by the protagonists’psychological passive and contradiction. Takeda’s protagonists shown as spectators, indifference, negative, but had free lives. The protagonist involved in conflicts unconsciously, felt guilt, and expanded inner struggles. In fact, this is also Takeda’s inner struggles, and that’s the struggles made Takeda shape more figures. The third point is the religious color and the confession consciousness in the works. Takeda was born in a Buddhist family; this experience became his source of creation. Besides, his other works also penetrates into the religious color unconsciously. With the influence of religious doctrine, Takeda always feel guilty for what he done in the battlefield. Because of this, his immediate post-war time works fulfill with the confessions, which is the feature of his works in this time. Which must be mentioned is that Takeda only regretted for his own personal behavior, not on behalf of Japan. Takeda didn’t evaluate the Japan behavior, and the word of "aggression" also never appeared in his works. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons that the study of Takeda in China is so few.