A Study Of Color Consciousness In Kawabata Yasunari’s Literature

As the first Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature,Yasunari Kawabata adapted to capturing all kinds of beauty,depicting delicate and soft emotions,and showing life in nature and human fate.Kawabata Yasunari’s works are closely related to his life experience,both of which have a rich colored atmosphere.He is a master of the use of color,who can always accurately grasp the beauty of different styles of different colors rendering,and can accurately grasp the subtle differences of different shades of the same color system.On the basis of previous studies,this paper,from the perspective of color,explores Kawabata Yasunari’s inheritance and development of Japanese traditional color culture and his understanding and pursuit of the connotation of Zen Buddhism.This paper is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The writing idea is as follows: firstly,to analyze the causes of Kawabata Yasunari’s color consciousness——Then,to extract the most representative colors——and from the perspective of these colors,combined with the author’s experience and comprehensive mining analysis of his creative works——Finally,to explore Kawabata Yasunari’s inheritance and development of Japanese traditional color aesthetics and his contribution to the collision of eastern and Western cultures.The introduction briefly sorts out the research status of Kawabata Yasunari in China and Japan,expounds the significance of the topic,and discusses the angle and thinking of this paper.The first chapter analyzes the reasons for the formation of Kawabata Yasunari’s color consciousness from the social background such as the influence of traditional Japanese color consciousness and the catalysis of the new sense School of literature and art,combined with Kawabata Yasunari’s own childhood experience and interest of art and painting.At the same time,"black,red,cyan and white" are introduced to pave the way for the following passage.Black is a kind of color that gives people a sense of depression and darkness,which has a very negative meaning.It symbolizes death and disappearance.The second chapter explores Kawabata Yasunari’s dark life experiences and his creative ideas starting with the color black.In his childhood,he suffered from the successive death of his close relatives.In his later years,he committed suicide with gas in his mouth after winning the Nobel Prize for literature.In his whole life,black is both the beginning and the end.The chapter also reveals the theme of death in his works,including the death of characters and the disappearance of emotions.The third chapter focuses on Kawabata Yasunari’s life and vitality in his works centering on the color red.After the childhood nightmare,light and heat gradually permeated Kawabata Yasunari’s life.He made some achievements in the literary world,and also had a happy marriage.The beauty of women in his works is also expressed in red.Red is not only a symbol of physical beauty,but also the power of life.The fourth chapter starts from the color cyan and talks about the natural beauty represented by forest civilization and seasonal sense in Japan.The formation of Kawabata Yasunari’s green aesthetic consciousness,on the one hand,is due to the Japanese tradition of being close to nature since ancient times,on the other hand,comes from the traditional beauty of Japanese tea ceremony culture and Buddhist thought.The fifth chapter explores Kawabata Yasunari’s aesthetic pursuit and Zen connotation with white as the core,and then explores the supreme position of white in Kawabata literature.Kawabata Yasunari strives to pursue the beauty of simple elegance and purity,and integrates the beauty of material sorrow into it.Influenced by the Zen spirit for a long time,he also pursues the true meaning of Buddhism,and realizes the idea of Zen that everything is the same and the beauty of nothingness.