On The Female Image In The Dazai Literature

Osamu Dazai, with the title of ‘eternal pyramid in Showa era literary circle’,is one of the major writers in Deviant School during Showa era in Japan, who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. Osamu Dazai started writing from the seventh year of Showa. In his very short life, Osamu Dazai wrote many classical works. Throughout the literatures of Osamu Dazai, we can find the importance of women, which is exactly starting point of many his works. During his whole life, Osamu Dazai kept on searching for a mother’s love and true love, but in the meanwhile his life was full of hopeless. We can explore the world of women in Osamu Dazai’s literatures through character analysis. Having read the fictions of Osamu Dazai, such as‘No Longer Human’,‘The Setting Sun’,‘Tsugaru’and so on, we can find the crucial effect of women. Therefore, not only in the books, but also in his real life, women have an important effect on him. Having contrastively researching on the women who related with Osamu Dazai and the female images created in his works, we can find how the female images formed in his literatures. In this paper, we focused on‘No Longer Human’,‘The Setting Sun’,‘Tsugaru’these three works to study the cause of formations of the female images created in his works. Exordium includes the proposition of problem, the status quo, the significance and the method of this research. In this paper, we focused on‘No Longer Human’,‘The Setting Sun’,‘Tsugaru’these three works to study the cause of formations of the female images created in his works. Exordium includes the proposition of problem, the status quo, the significance and the method of this research.