Wasteland - Arechi

Japanese: 荒地 - あれち

[1] 〘 noun 〙① Fields and farmland that have been damaged by disasters such as floods and landslides and are no longer arable and are left abandoned. Abandoned fields. Abandoned fields. [Nippo Jisho (1603-04)] ※ Documents of shrines and temples in Awa Province - Inui, 8th January 1604 (9th year of Keicho) "The abandoned fields of Ichiba Village are _open to the displaced peasants and vagabonds of _neighboring towns." ② Fields, housing sites, ponds, forests, pastures, and other land on which land tax is paid that has been altered by natural disasters. [Land Tax Ordinance (17th year of Meiji) (1884)] ③ Land that has been left as it is, without being turned into fields or housing sites. ※Sunrise (1903)〈Kunikida Doppo〉「The wasteland in the bosom of the mountains has turned into a beautiful mulberry field」[2][I] (Original title: The Waste Land) A long poem. Written by T.S. Eliot. Published in 1922. It symbolically expresses the spiritual barrenness of Europe after the First World War. It makes use of lines from myths and various classic poems. [II] A poetic coterie magazine. The magazine's name comes from (2)(I). The first issue of "The Waste Land" was founded in 1939 by Nobuo Ayukawa, Yoshinobu Morikawa and others, and the second issue in 1947. It was originally published as a magazine, and from 1951 it was published in the form of an annual poetry anthology "The Waste Land Poetry Collection" and a special edition "Poetry and Poetics". It focused on the wartime experience, introduced elements of criticism of civilization into poetry, and played a major role in the history of postwar poetry. Members of the group include Nobuo Ayukawa, Ryuichi Tamura, Taro Kitamura, Toyoichiro Miyoshi, Masao Nakagiri, Saburo Kuroda, Koichi Kihara, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Toshio Nakae, and others.

Ko- chikuwau... [Wasteland]

〘noun〙① Barren land. Barren and unproductive land. Arechi. Barren land. *Newspaper Magazine - Issue 3, June 1871 (Meiji 4): "In the West, the manufacture of machines for developing barren land " [Jinsho - Geography] ② Levy land whose topography has changed due to natural disasters such as landslides and floods.

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Japanese:

[1] 〘名〙① 水害や山崩れなどの災害によってそこなわれ、耕作できなくなったまま打ち捨ててある田畑。荒損田。荒田地。〔日葡辞書（1603‐04）〕※阿波国社寺文書‐乾・慶長九年（1604）正月八日「当市場村荒地之儀、隣郷にて、役はづれの百姓、并流浪人罷出可_二相開_一候」② 田畑、宅地、池沼、山林、牧場その他、地租を納める土地が、天災によって地形を変えたもの。〔地租条例（明治一七年）（1884）〕③ 田畑や宅地などにしないで、そのままにしてある土地。※日の出（1903）〈国木田独歩〉「山懐(やまふところ)の荒地(アレチ)は美事な桑園と変じ」[2][一] (原題The Waste Land) 長詩。Ｔ=Ｓ=エリオット作。一九二二年刊。第一次大戦後のヨーロッパの精神的不毛を象徴的に表わしたもの。神話やさまざまな古典の詩句が駆使されている。[二] 詩の同人誌。誌名は(二)(一)にちなむ。第一次「荒地」は鮎川信夫、森川義信らにより昭和一四年（一九三九）、第二次「荒地」は同二二年創刊。当初は雑誌、二六年以後は年刊詩華集「荒地詩集」、別冊「詩と詩論」などの形で刊行された。戦争体験を凝視し、詩に文明批評的要素を導入、戦後詩史に大きな役割を果たした。同人に、鮎川信夫、田村隆一、北村太郎、三好豊一郎、中桐雅夫、黒田三郎、木原孝一、吉本隆明、中江俊夫ほか。