Public spirit in Japanese postwar poetry

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07112
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Tsuru University
• Principal Investigator: TAGUCHI MANA 都留文科大学, 文学部, 講師 (80748707)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 日本戦後詩 / 「荒地」グループ / 鮎川信夫 / 公共性・公共哲学 / 詩の展覧会 / 1950年代の文化運動 / 原稿・草稿研究 / 戦後詩の翻訳

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, 750 Dojinshi, that is, coterie magazines, which were published in the 1950s and hardly read, were examined. They were accepted by the public institution, The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature and have been communalized. Findings revealed the poetry magazine Inyouchi, which was launched by Ayukawa Nobuo with poets from Hiroshima, played an important role in the postwar era. I inspected valuable manuscripts on the events of the postwar poetry movement, namely, Manuscript exhibition of the poetry for antiwar and peace and Atomic bomb exhibition, which were held in Himeji; I prepared them for publication. Furthermore, I conducted an international workshop of Japanese postwar poetry with overseas researchers to re-evaluate Ayukawa and Arechi as world literature.
The findings reveal how Japanese postwar poetry where Arechi played a leading role had participated in the public problems through their poetry.

Free Research Field

人文学