Japanese Romanticism

A literary magazine. It was published from March 1935 to March 1938. It ran for a total of 29 issues. According to the "Japanese Romantic School" advertisement published in the magazine "Cogito," the original members were six people: Jinbo Kotaro, Kamei Katsuichiro, Nakajima Eijiro, Nakatani Takao, Ogata Ryushi, and Yasuda Yojuro. Later, Ito Shizuo, Ito Sakio, Haga Mayumi, Dazai Osamu, Dan Kazuo, Yamagishi Gaishi, and Midorikawa Mitsugu joined, and by the time publication was finished, the number of members had exceeded 50. Yasuda's "Advertising" sharply criticized realistic novels that were naturalistic personal notes as "the literature of the vulgar and lowbrow," and said that in order to deny the literary movement, one should start a literary movement, which advocated the "lofty" over the "common," the "timeless" over the "fashionable," and the "true path" over the "conventional," and to this end, they argued that "irony, which exists as a handmaiden of truth and sincerity," must be used. Yasuda's "Anti-Progressive Literature" (1935) and Kamei's "The Living Judas (On Shestov)" (1935) show the orientation of this school, and their novels include Dazai's "Flowers of the Clown" (1935), Midorikawa's "Prostitute" (1935), Dan's "Suiun" (1935), Ito's "Flower Banquet" (1935-37), and others. The yearning for the ancient times, as represented by Yasuda, contained a fundamental criticism of the decadent, Western-imitation Japanese modernity, but with the deepening of the wartime regime and the rise of vulgar Japanese nationalism, it gradually changed into "aesthetics of the battlefield." It has been reprinted (1971).

[Norio Okubo]

"The Movement of the Japanese Romantic School" by Saegusa Yasutaka (1959, Gendaisha) " "A Supplement to the Criticism of the Japanese Romantic School" by Hashikawa Bunzo (1965, Miraisha) " "What is the Japanese Romantic School?" by Okubo Norio et al. (1972, Yushodo Publishing)

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文芸雑誌。1935年（昭和10）3月から38年3月まで刊行。全29冊。『コギト』誌上に掲載された『「日本浪曼派」広告』によると、創刊当初の同人は、神保光太郎(じんぼこうたろう)、亀井勝一郎(かついちろう)、中島栄次郎、中谷孝雄(なかたにたかお)、緒方隆士(おがたりゅうし)、保田与重郎(やすだよじゅうろう)ら6人であるが、その後、伊東静雄、伊藤佐喜雄(さきお)、芳賀檀(はがまゆみ)、太宰治(だざいおさむ)、檀(だん)一雄、山岸外史(がいし)、緑川貢(みつぐ)らが加わり、終刊近くには50人を超える。保田執筆になる「広告」は、「平俗低徊(ていかい)の文学」としての自然主義的な身辺雑記の写実小説を痛烈に批判し、文学の運動を否定するために進んで文学の運動を開始するといい、それは「卑近」に対する「高邁(こうまい)」の、「流行」に対する「不易」の、「従俗」に対する「本道」の主張で、そのために「真理と誠実の侍女として存在するイロニー」を用いねばならぬとした。保田の「反進歩主義文学論」（1935）と亀井の「生けるユダ（シェストフ論）」（1935）がこの派の志向を示し、小説に、太宰『道化の華』（1935）、緑川『娼婦(しょうふ)』（1935）、檀『衰運』（1935）、伊藤『花宴』（1935～37）その他がある。保田に代表される古代憧憬(しょうけい)は、退廃した、西洋模倣の日本的近代に対する根源的批判を含んでいたが、戦時体制の深化と俗流の日本主義の台頭により、漸次「戦場の美学」へと変質する。復刻版（1971）がある。

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『三枝康高著『日本浪曼派の運動』（1959・現代社）』▽『橋川文三著『増補　日本浪曼派批判序説』（1965・未来社）』▽『大久保典夫他著『日本浪曼派とは何か』（1972・雄松堂出版）』

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