A Fool's Love

Japanese: 痴人の愛 - ちじんのあい
A Fool's Love

A full-length novel by Tanizaki Junichiro. It was serialized in the Osaka Asahi Shimbun from March to June 1924 (Taisho 13), and in Josei from November to July of the following year. It was published by Kaizosha in 1925. According to Sato Haruo, this controversial work is "a precise depiction of a new kind of man and woman and their relationship in the late Taisho era, in one volume of genre painting." The protagonist, "I" (Kawai Joji), takes in Naomi, a Western-style girl who works as a waitress at a cafe in Asakusa, grooms her to be his ideal woman, and marries her. However, his excessive Western taste awakens Naomi's prostitute nature, and although he banishes her at one point, he is unable to resist her physical charms as a "naturally born whore," and ends up bowing to her like a slave. The free-spirited female protagonist, Naomi, gained a reputation as the epitome of the modern girl, and the neologism "Naomiism" was born.

[Norio Okubo]

"A Fool's Love" (Kadokawa Bunko/Shincho Bunko)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

谷崎潤一郎(じゅんいちろう)の長編小説。1924年(大正13)3月から6月まで『大阪朝日新聞』に、同年11月から翌年7月まで『女性』に連載。25年、改造社刊。佐藤春夫によると、「大正末期の眼(め)あたらしい一種の男女及びその男女関係が一巻の風俗画として精密に出来上つた」問題作。主人公の「私」(河合譲治)が、浅草のカフェーで給仕女をしていたナオミという西洋的なタイプの少女を引き取り、自分の好みの理想の女に仕立てあげ結婚する。が、その行きすぎた西洋趣味の結果が逆にナオミの娼婦(しょうふ)性を目覚めさせ、一度は彼女を放逐したものの、彼女の「天稟(てんぴん)の淫婦(いんぷ)」としての肉体の魅力に抗しきれず、奴隷のごとくかしずくに至る。自由奔放な女主人公ナオミは、モダン・ガールの典型として評判になり、ナオミズムなる新語が生まれた。

[大久保典夫]

『『痴人の愛』(角川文庫・新潮文庫)』

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