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Literary Friendship A Response: "Ajia Dafu's and Yu ko" Sat6 Haruo's first Yu expressed his for Sat• writing Haruo's respect in brief no entitled essay a "Haishang •_•_ •'• tongxin" • (Correspondence from sea) the in Creation the Weekly Nationalism Friendship, and Literature, in October of the 1923. professed In genuine Yu preference for Sat6 essay, a among Japanese writers admitting contemporary while that there writers better many were Keaveney Christopher T. known highly and 3 lauded in China than Sat6 likely is Haruo. It that the more writers two College Linfield introduced by in • Tian [] 1922 (1898-1979) Han already who acquainted were was Satr, with Satr. who visited Taiwan in 1920, had well-documented affection for a appeared by • Jg. •'• there hyoron Nippon •J issue of the March 1938 In essay an classical Chinese literature and familiar with several Chinese writers and was young writer friend, Chinese (1885-1976) q• ,,• the his • • about Mushanok•ji • t], Saneatsu 4 intellectuals. praised •'• of refined N )v is Zhou (1885-1967). the In Zhou Zuoren man as a essay, doubt, Yu, also felt certain gratitude debt literary of whose Sat6 had works no to a Mushanokoji by adhered nonviolence espousing Tolstoyan creed of the to peace, same inspiration served and touchstone early for his efforts. 1927, In when as an Sat6 own Mushanokrji expressed his nations, warring enmity Despite between the himself. the two Haruo, wife, his niece and Shanghai, visit determined made guide Yu effort to came to a intellectual, personal if and felt loyal he friend with whom remain intent strong to to a a the Satrs various sites of cultural interest. by to Both writers time, that relatively were, Mushanok6ji's nevertheless propagandistic, Unabashedly political, kinship. essay not figures influential in respective their literary communities and this visit high marked the communities. literary relationship positive depicted between the two point friendship. a their of Mushanokrji's inclusion the in the sympathetic generally of Given the essay, tone later, Some behest the the of scholar Toramaru, niece, Sat6 It6 at Haruo's years hyoron Nippon of Sat• Haruo's issue of •,• • • ,•, same Chieko •, the of visit 1927 China and her memories of wrote Dafu. Yu to portrayal unflattering provided of inflammatory Asia), which (Children of story an an According although her the Satrs by entertained account, to number of Chinese were a ;• • • 5• (1892- •• • (1896-1945) and Guo Moruo Dafu of.Yu the lives in events literary celebrities, it Dafu Yu who the them welcome and the warmest spent was gave the between of relations unsettled bitterly underscored the ironic and 1978), state was showing time them Shanghai • both around Hangzhou. most and Moreover, she recounts particular, took in during Yu, literary the communities 1930s. and Chinese Japanese how conformed satisfy Yu schedule his desire their culturally visit significant sites to to "Riben called in his ire portrayal exception and in the his story vent to essay to an gave by taking Hangzhou visit them and the when Lake Tian West to canceled Han a • • whores). • literary 2qg: 3• and )V (Japanese i•l • changfu" [] wenshi de men yu commitment Nanjing take them polkical due Again, to toward the the to end of to unrest. formal also simple of Satr's It criticism than The story. a was essay more a visit, was Satrs' appointed late for Yu meal with being the after Sates by detained the was an already friendship had that literary association and of termination declaration of the a They authorities. later discovered slip he that had beneath the surveillance of the to literary complicated by of the relationship further spanned The fifteen matter years. was authorities in order 6 them last departure. before time their to see one during Dafu self-referential fiction Yu influence--specifically of Satr's influence the on during this visit, It Uchiyama while • • j•_ •J Kanzr's bookstore in at was of the impossible with is writer. formative It nature his to accuracy any gauge years as a Shanghai, that Sat6 learned of Haruo the death friend of his rival and Japanese the in apparently form, least took the during but it relationship those writers' at the years, two •_ figure j< bundan established relationship the mentor-disciple between initially, of a May China, though Fourth significance it fails the of Japanese suggest to contemporary era initiate, (1892-1964) and the Yu. Sat6 young development literature Yu's writer; Cheng's Ching-mao Impact "The Japanese of on as essay, a occasions, and several work genuine for Satr's acknowledged admiration Yu on Literary Trends Modem briefly (pp. Chinese Writers" 63-88), the influence of the treats on another relate writers the the dictate admiration to to this two one to were way Japanese was shishrsetsu (I-novel) Dafu Yu and the other Society. &the members Creation on thereafter.: • )• • • • 5• • 3•b, • "Zuoteng Toramam • It6 7q• J2• Chunfu Dafu" (Sat6 Yu Hamo yu ff• •-• • Dafu), • Zhongguo [• •rA and Yu gg (February xiandai 1993), 206-14. wenxue pp. explanation of his 4 included and 1920, Sat6 Zhou Zuoren In Mushanokrji's four introduction months in exchanged Taiwan which he in spent to educator with the an poetry essay was an readers. literary Chinese [• trends •t• • Japanese Jingheng Chen information disseminating about guide to who acted the role contemporary in in much eight Dafu Yu would a as way same as 1938). (March hyOron during Zuoren), Nippon • (Zhou later Shanghai. Satr's ;• "Shfi Sakunin" • Mushanokrji Huang visit Saneatsu, Meizi Sat6 Taiwan, Haruo to years to Dafu and Chagoku:"Hoshi"omegutteg:•zj•Y#5•z•-•'•, Yu Japanese literature of concerning influence • English •[•: the z scholarship Although in •"((SatrHaruoand on of articles several limited, there Concerning rather China: Taiwan and is note. relationship Star") and Sat6 (Tsukuba: University Hamo bmveen "The Yu the Tsukuba Thesis, Master's are question of the writers and relationship the 1983). between the which focuses article One two on and Yu Novel According Haruo's Den 'en y•utsu and.Coherence? Sat6 Sat6 Chieko's Radtke's "Chaos is day influence the Satrs Kurt Yu guided the first to them and greet account, no to came York: St. (New Rethinking Japan eds., al., Bosaro, around Chenlun," Trilogy in Adriana several DaN's occasions after information that. This in et from several letters Sat• on appears Goldman, chapters Merle noting in Work Toramaru, worth Chieko Also It6 1985), 1, vol. scholar 86-101. describing Press, of the Dafu, Martin's life and of two Yu the to Satrs' 1927 are pp. a University Harvard (Cambridge, Mass.: •1• Toramam,/ku L•. • May •(Jc visit. See Fourth Era • • the It6 Tappu shiry6 ed., • Chinese Literature (Edited Modern hoben in additional materials Literature" Modem Chinese Dafu) (Tokyo: Transition the Egan's Trky6 Dafu and daigaku "Yu Yu Michael 2, 1977); 1975), Press, bunken to vol. 199-204. senti, on essay, pp. expression in literary 6 development modem of shiry6 Tappu Itr, hoben, Iku contribution the Yu's 309-24), (pp. examines 2, vol. 201. to p. 21 22 Literary Friendship A Response: "Ajia Dafu's and Yu ko" Sat6 Haruo's first Yu expressed his for Sat• writing Haruo's respect in brief no entitled essay a "Haishang •_•_ •'• tongxin" • (Correspondence from sea) the in Creation the Weekly Nationalism Friendship, and Literature, in October of the 1923. professed In genuine Yu preference for Sat6 essay, a among Japanese writers admitting contemporary while that there writers better many were Keaveney Christopher T. known highly and 3 lauded in China than Sat6 likely is Haruo. It that the more writers two College Linfield introduced by in • Tian [] 1922 (1898-1979) Han already who acquainted were was Satr, with Satr. who visited Taiwan in 1920, had well-documented affection for a appeared by • Jg. •'• there hyoron Nippon •J issue of the March 1938 In essay an classical Chinese literature and familiar with several Chinese writers and was young writer friend, Chinese (1885-1976) q• ,,• the his • • about Mushanok•ji • t], Saneatsu 4 intellectuals. praised •'• of refined N )v is Zhou (1885-1967). the In Zhou Zuoren man as a essay, doubt, Yu, also felt certain gratitude debt literary of whose Sat6 had works no to a Mushanokoji by adhered nonviolence espousing Tolstoyan creed of the to peace, same inspiration served and touchstone early for his efforts. 1927, In when as an Sat6 own Mushanokrji expressed his nations, warring enmity Despite between the himself. the two Haruo, wife, his niece and Shanghai, visit determined made guide Yu effort to came to a intellectual, personal if and felt loyal he friend with whom remain intent strong to to a a the Satrs various sites of cultural interest. by to Both writers time, that relatively were, Mushanok6ji's nevertheless propagandistic, Unabashedly political, kinship. essay not figures influential in respective their literary communities and this visit high marked the communities. literary relationship positive depicted between the two point friendship. a their of Mushanokrji's inclusion the in the sympathetic generally of Given the essay, tone later, Some behest the the of scholar Toramaru, niece, Sat6 It6 at Haruo's years hyoron Nippon of Sat• Haruo's issue of •,• • • ,•, same Chieko •, the of visit 1927 China and her memories of wrote Dafu. Yu to portrayal unflattering provided of inflammatory Asia), which (Children of story an an According although her the Satrs by entertained account, to number of Chinese were a ;• • • 5• (1892- •• • (1896-1945) and Guo Moruo Dafu of.Yu the lives in events literary celebrities, it Dafu Yu who the them welcome and the warmest spent was gave the between of relations unsettled bitterly underscored the ironic and 1978), state was showing time them Shanghai • both around Hangzhou.