Japanese Bridges - Japanese Bridges

Japanese: 日本の橋 - にほんのはし

A critical essay by Yasuda Yojuro. Published in Bungakukai in October 1936 (Showa 11). Published by Shiba Shoten in November of the same year with five other essays, it won the first Ikeya Shinzaburo Prize. Yasuda's masterpiece seeks to extract the fragile beauty of traditional Japanese culture by contrasting Japanese bridges, which even hint at the artificial and strive to be natural, with Roman bridges, which are the product of a spirit that can only be achieved through far more grandiose artificiality. Yasuda says that in Japan, even the artificial was conceived in its ultimate form to save nature, and that over time, this led to a harmonious relationship between the artificial and the natural, depicting psychological literature in a pale, transparent space.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

保田与重郎の評論。1936年(昭和11)10月《文学界》に発表。ほかに評論5編を収めて同年11月，芝書店から刊行し，第1回池谷信三郎賞を受賞。人工さえほのかにし，つとめて自然の相たらしめようとした日本の橋と，はるかに雄大な人工のみに成立する精神の所産であるローマ人の橋を対比することで，日本の伝統文化のあえかな美しさを抽出しようとした保田の代表作。日本では人工さえその極致においては自然を救うために構想せられた，と保田はいい，それが時代を経るにつれて，人工と自然をもっぱら調和し，淡い透明の中間に心理の文学を描いた，としている。

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