Spring Tales of Flowers and Willows

Japanese: 《花柳春話》 - かりゅうしゅんわ
Spring Tales of Flowers and Willows


[Relationship with Japanese literature]
The Japanese, who had access to new knowledge from the West during the Meiji Restoration, were quick to import and translate the "political novels" of contemporary 19th-century British writers, such as Bulwer-Lytton and Disraeli. The original work for "Hanayagi Shunwa," translated by Niwa (Oda) Junichiro and published as early as 1878, was Lytton's "Ernest Maltravers" (1837). Japanese readers at the time expected novels to have practical utility, providing guidance and answers to political and real-life problems.

From Bulwer-Lytton

…His famous works include Pelham (1828), a tale of the love and political adventures of a high-ranking young man in high society, Ernest Maltravers (1837), Paul Clifford (1830), which deals with crime as a social issue and portrays criminals sympathetically, and Eugene Allam (1832), a historical novel from the Roman period, The Last Days of Pompeii (1834). Many of his works, including Ernest Maltravers (translated by Junichiro Niwa as Hanayagi Shunwa, 1878), were translated into Japanese in the 1870s, making him a pioneer in the history of translation of Western novels, alongside D. Defoe and J. Verne. [Ebine Hiroshi] …

*Some of the terminology used in "Hanayagi Shunwa" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[日本文学との関係]
 明治維新で西欧の新知識に触れることのできた日本人は,同時代のイギリス19世紀の作家たち,例えばブルワー・リットンやディズレーリの〈政治小説〉をいち早く移入し,翻訳した。早くも1878年に出版された丹羽(織田)純一郎訳《花柳春話》の原作は,リットンの《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》(1837)であった。当時の日本の読者は,小説が政治や実人生の問題に指針や解答を与えてくれるという実践的効用を期待していたのである。…

【ブルワー・リットン】より

…社交界の上流青年の恋と政治の遍歴物語《ペラム》(1828),《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》(1837),犯罪を社会問題とし,犯罪者を同情的に描く《ポール・クリフォード》(1830),《ユージン・アラム》(1832),ローマ時代の歴史小説《ポンペイ最後の日》(1834)などが有名である。日本でも《アーネスト・マルトラバーズ》(丹羽純一郎訳《花柳春話》1878)をはじめ,多くの作品が明治10年代に翻訳され,西洋小説翻訳史上,D.デフォーやJ.ベルヌらと並んで先駆をなした。【海老根 宏】。…

※「《花柳春話》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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