"Kyouko's House" - Kyoko's House

...His visit to Greece in 1952 gave rise to a desire for Greek-style health, which not only bore fruit in the pastoral novel "The Sound of Waves" (1954), but also foreshadowed his later attitude toward training the body through bodybuilding. After reaching a certain artistic milestone with "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" in 1956, he depicted the nihilism and actions of the "postwar" era in "Kyoko's House" (1959), but it was not until "Patriotism" (1961), which was based on the February 26 Incident after the 1960 Security Treaty Crisis, that "prewar" elements began to appear in his works. This tendency became even more pronounced in "A Discussion of Hayashi Fusao" (1963) and "Voices of the Heroic Spirits" (1966), and continued in "The Sea of ​​Fertility" (1965-70). ...

*Some of the terminology used in "Kagamiko's House" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…52年におけるギリシア訪問を契機に，ギリシア的な健康への希求が生まれ，牧歌的な小説《潮騒》(1954)に結実しただけでなく，のちにボディビルで肉体を鍛える態度の伏線を形づくった。56年に《金閣寺》で芸術的な一つの到達点をきわめたのち，《鏡子の家》(1959)で〈戦後〉という時代のニヒリズムと行為をえがいたが，60年安保のあと二･二六事件に取材した《憂国》(1961)にいたって〈戦前〉的なものが作品に入りはじめる。この傾向はやがて《林房雄論》(1963)や《英霊の声》(1966)でいっそう鮮明になり，《豊饒（ほうじよう）の海》(1965‐70)にいたる。…

※「《鏡子の家》」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。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報