Koichiro Tanizaki
Junichiro Tanizaki is a controversial heavyweight in modern Japanese literature. Chinese readers may not be familiar with Junichiro Tanizaki's name, but in fact, his influence on contemporary Chinese online literature is enormous. Tanizaki Junichiro's style of work is extremely unique, because his depiction of beauty is very extreme, coupled with the extreme worship of women, the Japanese literary circles at that time described "extreme beauty" as "extreme beauty". "Beauty" originally means "perfect beauty". Although the term "Tammy" has evolved and its meaning has changed, Junichiro Tanizaki is still regarded by the Japanese literary community as the originator of Tammy literature.
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"Haruka" mainly tells the story of the heroine Haruka and the male protagonist Sasuke, the deformed and secret relationship between the two, after Sasuke self-harmed and blind, the two accompanied each other to grow old. "Harumi Scribe" is one of the more representative novels of Junichiro Tanizaki that embodies the "worship of women".
The real relationship between the hero and the heroine
The story uses flashbacks, and the old man who tells the story has a very special way of sweeping the grave. The tombs of the heroes and heroines are in different positions, and there is no joint burial, it is reasonable to say that the two people should have no relationship, but the old man used the exact same tribute fruit, flowers, etc. in front of the tombs of the two. This can be seen that the old man must know the relationship between the two. Therefore, the hero and heroine should be a couple.
Movie "Haruka": Haruka and Sasuke
A common misconception about the story of Chunqin Transcription
For a long time, the analysis of "Chunqin Copy" has mostly simply applied the psychological model of "sadistic and masochistic tendencies". In fact, it is a mistake to make a rigid set. The unequal "status" of the hero and heroine is shown many times in the text. Haruka's family status is higher than Sasuke's, so Sasuke has always adopted a "look-up" attitude to face Haruka. Moreover, Haruka never abused Sasuke in the true sense of the word, and the greatest injury (blindness) that Sasuke suffered was entirely inflicted on his own initiative. Therefore, the psychological model that this story should really apply is "extreme worship of women".
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Junichiro Tanizaki describes two important events in "Harumi Scribe". The first incident is that Haruka hides the child's biological father, and the second incident is that Sasuke interjects his own eyes. From these two events, it can be seen that the author's worship of women has reached a very extreme point.
Chunqin
A secret tangled relationship
After Haruka gave birth, everyone thought that Haruka and Sasuke were in love. In this case, Chunqin hides the child's father again and again. In the eyes of normal people, this is simply incomprehensible. Why is that? Could it be that Haruka deliberately met a man and had a child with him in order to reject this affair, in order to stimulate Sasuke and his parents? If you read the original text carefully, you will find that this is not the case.
Chunqin is reclusive in the original text, and is a blind girl who never goes out alone, so the child's biological father will never be an outsider. At home, the only person who had the opportunity to contact Haruka for a long time was Sasuke. However, in the original parents' inquiries about Sasuke, sasuke never got a positive answer.
Therefore, Haruka is indeed hiding the fact that the child's biological father is Sasuke, and Sasuke is also helping Haruka hide this matter. Obviously, the two reached some kind of secret agreement in order to continue the "underground love", if the child's biological father is said, then the relationship between the two people will inevitably break down.
Haruka and Sasuke
There is a sentence in the original text: "Haruka probably thinks that to honor Sasuke as a husband is a great insult to herself." How to understand this sentence? It should be known that the status of Japanese women after marriage is lower than that of their husbands, not only to lose their jobs and become housewives full-time, but also to change their husbands' surnames. Especially in the war years, it was even more male than female inferior.
But in this relationship, Haruka's status is obviously higher than Sasuke's, and there is a huge gap between the two family lineages. So for her to maintain this relationship, her status must always be higher than Sasuke's. Therefore, Haruka will not marry Sasuke, which allows the two to maintain this "master-servant" relationship.
It can be seen here that in order to show the worship of women, the author not only raised the status of women, but also lowered the status of men. At this time, Haruka and Sasuke could no longer be regarded by the standards of normal people. What kind of normal man can tolerate it to this extent? What kind of normal woman can "do" to this point? These problems, in fact, in the internal logic of the "Chunqin Copy", are not problems, but are logical, and their internal logic will be revealed below.
"Sacrifice" and "Sublimation"
This section can be said to be the climax of the plot of "Chunqin Copy". Sasuke had no need to destroy his eyes, but the fact that he had interjected his own eyes for a sentence from Haruka was terrifying and in a cold sweat. After Sasuke stabbed his blind eyes, the first thing he did was to "report" to Haruka, after which the two fell silent.
Sasuke
At this time, Junichiro Tanizaki described Sasuke's mood this way: "These few minutes of silence are the only happy moments in Sasuke's life. "
Why is that? Because of Haruka's words, Sasuke did not hesitate to stab himself blind, and after that, instead of pain and sadness, he was filled with pleasure. If you think about it from the perspective of "masochistic tendencies", Sasuke is indeed a masochistic person, he regards Haruka as a goddess at the same time, but also regards himself as garbage, he thinks that his eyes are not as important as Haruka's momentary joys and sorrows. But is the author's intention really as simple as showing "masochistic tendencies"? Apparently not, Haruka did not physically abuse Sasuke, and the mental abuse was not a genuine abuse of Sasuke, but "maintaining the underground love between the two".
At the end of the Harumi Scribe, Junichiro Tanizaki deliberately arranges for a monk who "learns of Sasuke's own blinding eyes and is thrilled by Sasuke's Zen machine, which can distinguish between inside and outside in a blink of an eye and transform ugliness into beauty." So it can be seen from this that in the monk's view, Sasuke's act of blinding his own eyes was to achieve the purpose of "sublimating" himself through "sacrifice", embodying a kind of "great wisdom" and even "worth learning". Therefore, sacrificing his eyes and becoming blind is an incredible "sublimation" for Sasuke. Sasuke did not do this because he was abused, but because he had a strong mental strength, and the whole process was deliberate and voluntary.
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Junichiro Tanizaki wrote this kind of story, which has some elements of curiosity, but did not write this story just for the sake of curiosity, but through this story to explore the possibility of extreme worship of women. There is an inherent logic in "Chunqin Copy" that makes the existence of the worship of women and the belittling of men, as well as the motives of the heroes and heroines, in this story relatively reasonable.
The "balance" of body and spirit
In the incident of concealing the child's biological father, Chunqin actually has a strange logic. After this incident, Haruka's attitude towards Sasuke became even worse. At this time, Junichiro Tanizaki described an unbelievable point of view - since Sasuke was already a "physiological necessity" of Haruka, it was natural that Haruka would have to be worse for him in other respects in order to achieve a balance.
For Haruka, this seems to be a kind of "compensatory" psychology - she has given Sasuke physical pleasure, so she must mentally deprive Sasuke of her happiness - this can be seen as a "condition" that Haruka gave sasuke. However, from Sasuke's point of view, it is clear that the two are not equivalent.
For Sasuke, Haruka is a goddess, and it is already a great blessing to be able to kiss the goddess Yoshizawa, and the physical and spiritual are not equal. Therefore, Sasuke would never go to great lengths to prove that he was the father of the child, nor would he prove that he was the "name" of Haruka's husband. Because Sasuke was already a great "vested interest" in this incident, he naturally would not upset this balance. Therefore, Sasuke is very sympathetic to the concealment of the child's biological father, he will help Haruka to hide the secret, and will not ask Haruka to marry, precisely because he profits from the conditions that Haruka offers.
To understand this logic, it is necessary to understand one thing - Tanizaki Junichiro is extremely worshipful of women, so in his values, women are much more valuable than men, so the value of the conditions offered by both sides is not equal. That's why Sasuke has such a very awkward view, but under the premise of extremely unequal status between the two sides, this behavior is taken for granted. Both Harumi and Sasuke show a disregard for the child, and those around them disagree with it – this is also because subconsciously, their behavior is very reasonable and very correct, and the supporting characters in the story plot are certainly not surprised by this.
Pursue a higher realm through self-harm
Through the author's description of the "enemy pouring boiling water and scalding the spring qin", it can be seen that this "enemy" is really just a plot need, and the description is very casual. Therefore, this plot is completely to lead to the matter of "Sasuke inserting his own eyes". It doesn't matter who the enemy is, and Sasuke won't "avenge" Haruka, which is not in line with the plot tone.
Why did Sasuke blind his eyes? Why did he feel "happy" after blinding his eyes? To answer this question, it is necessary to return to Junichiro Tanizaki's extreme admiration for women. Since in Tanizaki Junichiro's concept, women are higher than men, so women's lifestyles are also higher than men's. Specific to the Harumina Copy, Haruka's lifestyle, that is, the lifestyle of the blind, is higher than the "not blind" lifestyle of Sasuke.
Sasuke is blind in both eyes
Therefore, in Sasuke's view, blinding his own eyes is a process of "pursuing a higher realm". By blinding his own eyes, he approached, or even stepped into Chunqin's "high-class" lifestyle, so he felt "happy". To ordinary people, this is a very perverted thing, but in Sasuke's view, it is an inner sublimation--which is why the monk at the end praises it. The monk did not praise Haruka, who had been blind since childhood, but rather Sasuke, who had voluntarily lost his sight, because Haruka did not pursue something and make sacrifices, and Sasuke took the initiative to "upgrade". Therefore, if Haruka is another type of disability, Sasuke will inevitably take other ways of self-harm to "escalate".
That is to say, the relationship between Haruka and Sasuke is not explained by theories such as "sadistic, masochistic tendencies" and "Stockholm syndrome", but is designed based on the ideas of "female superiority and male inferiority" and "extreme worship of women". It can be said that this is a literary exploration by Junichiro Tanizaki, and it is also a manifestation of his extreme admiration for women.
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Junichiro Tanizaki is a genius in the history of modern Japanese literature, and after analyzing his "Harukami Copy", it is not difficult to understand the reasons why later generations have mixed praise and criticism of Tanizaki Junichiro. Junichiro Tanizaki's extreme admiration for women is vividly reflected in this "Haruka Scribe". Whether it is the female protagonist Haruka or the male protagonist Sasuke, the extreme character of their bodies is impressive and difficult to understand. In any case, the "beauty" and extreme beauty created by Junichiro Tanizaki have been interpreted more delicately and more complexly in the literary circles after Junichiro Tanizaki.
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1. "Chunqin Copy"
2. "Blindness" in Tanizaki Literature: Focusing on "Blindness" in "Shunkinsho"
3. On the Image of a Woman in Shunkinsho