Decline - Shayo

Japanese: 斜陽 - しゃよう

[1] 〘 noun 〙① The sun setting in the west. A sunset. A setting sun. A sun setting. ※Wakan Roei (c. 1018), Vol. 2: “The mountains face each other, as the sun sets. The waters resemble a circling current, as the rapids flow (Oe Asatsuna).” 〔Liu Cang - Autumn Days Climbing Liquan County Tower Poem〕② (By extension) The act of being overwhelmed by new things and gradually declining. Also, the very act itself. ※Travel - June 1951 issue, From hot springs to hot springs in the two provinces of Kagoshima and Etchu (Totsuka Fumiko ) “A town of the setting sun slumbering in vain amid the roaring of the sea.”[2] A novel. Written by Dazai Osamu. Published in 1947. The story is a mixture of diary entries, memoirs, and letters woven together around the first-person narration of Kazuko, the daughter of a fallen aristocrat. The collapse of the established order after the Second World War is captured in the downfall of Kazuko's mother, her brother Naoharu, and the novelist Uehara, and in the figure of Kazuko, who lives her life dreaming of a "moral revolution." This work became a hot topic as the author's representative work, and gave birth to the term "declining tribe."

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Japanese:

[1] 〘名〙① 西に傾いた太陽。夕日。夕陽(せきよう)。斜日。入り日。※和漢朗詠（1018頃）下「山は向背を成す斜陽の裏水は廻流に似たり迅瀬の間〈大江朝綱〉」〔劉滄‐秋日登醴泉県楼詩〕② (転じて) 新興のものに圧倒されて、しだいに没落していくこと。また、そのもの。※旅‐昭和二六年（1951）六月号・加越二国のお湯からお湯へ〈戸塚文子〉「海鳴りの響きの中に空しくまどろむ斜陽(シャヨウ)の町だ」[2] 小説。太宰治作。昭和二二年（一九四七）発表。没落貴族の娘かず子の一人称の語りを軸に日記・手記・手紙を織りまぜた形で構成。第二次世界大戦後の既成秩序の崩壊を、かず子の母、弟直治、小説家上原の滅亡と、「道徳革命」を夢見て生きぬくかず子の姿の中にとらえた。作者の代表作として話題を呼び、「斜陽族」ということばを生んだ。

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