Spiritualism and modernism in the work of Kawabata Yasunari

Kawabata Yasunari held a deep interest in the study of spiritualism from his very youth. He demonstrates his knowledge of the field in his writing in a variety of ways, particularly in the short stories he published during the prewar period. Thus far, scholarship has considered Kawabata's relationship with spiritualism primarily in terms of his biography: there has yet to be a satisfactorily rigorous study taking into account historical context and his use of spiritualism as novelistic technique. This article analyzes Kawabata and spiritualism with respect to modernism by looking at the short stories ‘The Full White Moon’, ‘Requiem’, and ‘Lyric Poem’. This analysis will also help illuminate the diversity of Kawabata's approaches to modernism

Art · Humanities · Literature · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Spiritualism · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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• Jojoka. Lyric Poem

  Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari et al.•Monumenta Nipponica•1971

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