Progress and Love Marriage
Rereading Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Chijin no ai
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6083035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michiko Suzuki (0000-0002-2264-7230, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 357-384 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Japanese Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-6848 • E-ISSN: 1549-4721 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jjs.2005.0065 |
| OpenAlex | W2042840626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Chijin no ai (A fool's love, 1924–25) and its conversation with the prominent cultural discourses of its time. I focus particularly on the ideas presented by writers such as Hiratsuka Raichō and Kuriyagawa Hakuson regarding "love marriage" (ren'ai kekkon), a practice idealized as both a marker for an advanced nation and a site enabling individuals to "progress" and heighten their characters (jinkaku). The novel parodically rewrites and actively reexamines these discourses in relation to contemporary values such as self-cultivation (shūyō) and cultural knowledge (kyōkō), asking what "progress" means within the rapidly changing social landscape of the 1920s
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Literature · Relation (database) · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Communication · Japanese History and Culture · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |