A comprehensive study on visual representations in war poetry

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520256
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Oita Prefectual College of Arts and Culture
• Principal Investigator: NOSAKA AKIO 大分県立芸術文化短期大学, その他部局等, 准教授 (20331936)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 戦争詩 / 視覚性 / 映画 / 表象 / 丸山薫

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, I focused on the visual media such as panorama, photograph and cinema, which progressed in the period from Meiji to Showa pre-war era, and tried to explain the reason why, in “war poetry” produced during the Pacific War, we can often find expressions related with visual media or the situations in which someone “see” the imaginary scenes of war. Some of Maruyama Kaoru’s war poetry works show the characteristic visual media in daily lives of people who were not soldiers. On one hand, these works are results of Maruyama’s interests in the visual media which shared to other modernism poets and literary critics. But on the other hand, these are products out of war technology which gives information on undergoing war to people in Japan. From these two points of view, I analyzed the expressions of Maruyama’s poetry works and revealed the meanings of visual aspects in “war poetry”.

Free Research Field

日本近代文学