A Study Of Miyao Tomiko’s "Manchuria Experience"

In 1973,Miyao Tomiko won the ninth "Dazai Prize" for her autobiographical novel "Kai",and established her status as a writer.As a female writer of Japanese popular literature,Miyao has created a large number of excellent works,including four autobiographical novels,"Kai","Syuuto","Syuka" and "Niyodogawa",which are created by her own surrounding characters and life experience.And literary works based on the stage background of whorehouse street in Tosa,such as "Yokiro" and "Onimasa".At the same time,there are works such as "Itigennkinn","Kura" and "Miyao’s Tales of the Heike",with Japanese traditional beauty and Japanese history as themes.Miyao not only won literature awards such as "Dazai Prize","Women’s Literature Award","Naoki Prize","Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Award" and "Kikuchi Kann Prize",but also many of her literary works were adapted by film and television,which were supported and loved by the audience.Looking back on her life,in March 1944,Miyao went to "Manchuria" as a member of the "DaiTosa Pioneer Immigrants".After Japan’s defeat,she finally set foot on Japan’s homeland after more than a year’s refugee life.Miyao once admitted that she would not have become a writer without more than a year’s experience of "Manchuria".Miyao has cooled and precipitated her traumatic memory of "Manchuria" for many years.Finally,according to her father’s diary,she created short story "Manchuria Ourai Nitsuite" and long story "Syuka" with her own "Manchuria experience" as the theme.At the same time,there are a lot of documentary literary works about "Manchuria" theme materials,showing the cognition and literary expression of "Manchuria" of Miyao to the readers.The research object of this paper is "Manchuria experience" literature of Miyao.Among the many Japanese women writers who came to Manchuria,Miyao was one of the few writers who applied her experience of Manchuria to her novels after the war.Compared with the female writers,such as Ushijima Haruko and Yokota Fumiko who created in the period of "Manchuria Literature",the post-war "Manchuria experience" literature of Miyao has lost the strong political color of the period of "Manchuria",and narrated our war experience to us from the perspective of a post-war woman;compared with the experience of moving back to "Manchuria" works of male writers such as Kiyooka Takuyuki,Abe Koubou,Miki Taku etc,Miyao’s "Manchuria "Manchuria" Literature works with a unique and delicate female perspective,the "Manchuria experience" literary works at the end of the palace narrated the firewood,rice,oil,salt,happiness,anger,sorrow and joy of exploiting people’s daily life,and showed the readers the seemingly ordinary but surging "Manchuria life".However,in the study of Japanese women writers who came to “Manchuria” or experience literature of returning to "Manchuria",there is no detailed study on the "Manchuria experience" literature by Miyao Tomiko.Therefore,this thesis focuses on the two novels "Manchuria Ourai Nitsuite" and "Syuka" created by Miyao with the theme of "Manchuria experience",and combines the background of the times of "Manchuria country" to study the contents of these two novels.Through analysis and interpretation,we can not only understand the war situation in Japan and Northeast China at that time,but also understand the daily life of "Manchuria Pioneer Immigrants" and the life experience of refugees after Japan’s defeat,which reflects the false face and deception of "five ethnic harmony,King’s paradise" advocated by the Japanese military and exposes the fact that Japan invaded Northeast China.At the same time,it also criticizes that Japan’s war of aggression has brought indelible and painful memories to the people of all countries.