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Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

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Original title: "The Japanese War of Aggression in taneda yamato fire| Liu Yong》

Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

Taneda Yamatoho (1882-1940) was a famous haiku poet in modern Japan. In 1882, Yamato Washu was born into a large landowner family in Fangfu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, whose original name was Shoichi Taneda, and "Yamato-ho" was his pen name. Haiku is a Form of Ancient Japanese Poetry, equivalent to ancient Chinese grammatical poetry, with a fixed pattern of words and sentences and rhythms. Matsuo Basho is a master of classical Japanese haiku and is known as a Japanese poet. Yamato Fire boldly innovated and explored, created free haiku, and no longer accepted the syllable and grammatical restrictions of ancient haiku, becoming a representative figure of Japanese free haiku. His haiku had a great influence on later generations, and he was known as the "contemporary Matsuo plantain".

First, the monk poet with a troubled fate

Yamato huo was born into a wealthy family and was the eldest son of the family. His father was a clumsy boy, who was a mischievous man, who was everywhere in the weeds and blatantly raised concubines outside. When Yamato-hsei was 11 years old, her mother committed suicide by jumping into a well because she could not stand her father's betrayal of the family. Since then, the mountain fire has become lonely and melancholy. At the age of 20, Yamato was admitted to the famous Waseda University Liberal Arts Department, but two years later, he was forced to drop out of school due to neurasthenia. Yamato Fire returns to his hometown to recuperate and help his father run the family's winery business.

In 1910, the 27-year-old Yamato huo married and had children. The following year, he began contributing to the haiku magazine Stratus, edited by Izumi Ogihara. In 1913, he became a protégé of Ogiwara Izumi, studied under his teacher, and for the first time used "Yamato Fire" as a pen name.

Unfortunately, Yamato Fire met this extremely unreliable father, and the farming and winery business he had invested in failed. Overnight, the land and real estate of the famous local farmers were all sold to pay off their debts. In order to avoid debt, my father simply ran away from home, and there was no news. Yamato huo also took his wife and son and moved to other places to earn a living. He had opened a bookstore and a mirror frame shop, but unfortunately his fortune was not good, and his business ended in failure. Later, Yamato's younger brother Jiro committed suicide. His wife also divorced him.

When He was 42 years old, when He was 42 years old, he came to a Zen Monastery of Bao'en, shaved his head, and became a monk of the Cao Dong Sect. The following year, he left the temple and embarked on a more than ten-year-long dervish tour throughout Japan. The mountain head fire wears monk's robes, wears a bucket hat, eats and sleeps in the wind, and travels around in the clouds. The so-called "bowl walking foot" is wandering and begging, walking travel. Although the mountain fire has suffered from the wandering and suffering of the world, it has never given up haiku writing. According to statistics, he created more than 80,000 haiku in his lifetime.

Second, the anti-war poet who dares to expose reality

Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

The poet represents the conscience of the times. Yamato Fire uses haiku as a weapon for himself to fight against the fate of Bu Fair.

Yamato-ho lived in a time spanning the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods, when Japan's militarist ambitions were inflated and rampant. In the face of the Japanese nation's fanatical desire for expansion and the aggressive behavior of conquest everywhere, yamato fire was once painful, wandering, and even lucky. He instinctively chose to conform and pretend to be confused. He even wrote: "Everyone went out on the battlefield, and the green mountains in the hometown were greener" and "We must win victory, and the young shoots of the earth are all green" to cheer for the Japanese army. However, in the face of the harsh reality, the Japanese people suffered from the deep disaster caused by the war of aggression, and the mountain fire gradually woke up and became an anti-war poet.

"The scorching sun is a heart, and a thousand people on the street have a needle each." This depicts the streets of Japan, where women use red threads on white cloths, and are willing to ask pedestrians passing by to sew a knot each. It is said that reaching a thousand festivals can bless the Japanese army with "long-term military luck" and the safe return of relatives who participated in the war. And actually? "The festivals on the streets are in full swing, and the king has returned to the white bone pieces." "Cold rain and miserable silence, welcome the remains of six hundred and five." "A piece of white bone, autumn to turn into the homeland." "There are Japanese people who have sacrificed their lives for the country everywhere, and everywhere is full of the pain of war.

Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

In 1937, the Japanese army launched an all-out war of aggression against China. The mountain fire wrote: "The heavens will not destroy me, let me write poetry." When I live in the world, I will write poetry, my own sincere poems. He used his poet's conscience to complain about Japanese militarism.

"Moonlight Lang Lang, I don't know where it is blowing up?" Mountain fires in the moonlit night worried about China ravaged by Japanese artillery fire. Will the Japanese soldiers who were conscripted into the army return safely? "Leave your hands and feet to China, and go back to Japan to see the mountains and rivers again." He was lucky enough to return to his hometown alive, and more people became cannon fodder. "The beads of sweat in both hands fell straight down, wetting the white box of bones." An old father held the urn of his son who had died in battle, holding back tears. "Bury the remains of the king in the warmth of the mountain roots." Today, we read these verses that are still shocking, and those who provoke wars all day long and shout and kill can rest.

More and more people died in the war, but the pace of the war did not stop at all. Japanese militarism continued to recruit soldiers into battle, and scenes of life and death were staged every day. "The last meal of Japanese rice, I was sweating profusely." It was time to say goodbye to his relatives and go to the battlefield, and when a new recruit ate the farewell meal, he did not dare to shed tears and could only sweat. There are also lovers who send farewells," eyes are fixed, nailed into each other's eyes. "Maybe that's the last side of them.

The mountain fire pays attention to the war news every day, and often sorrow comes from it. He lamented that war is cruel, and "living is pain." The miserable scenes of the Japanese people caused by the devastation of the war appeared in front of his eyes and poured into his pen. However, to show this with pen and ink, to criticize the Japanese militarist government, is to take great risks. As Mr. Oyama, a friend of Yamato Fire, said: The anti-war poetry of Yamato Fire is a "work of risking death" that will surely be passed on to future generations and inspire people's love and yearning for peace.

Third, the impact of mountain fire on future generations

At the end of 1939, Yamato fire came to Matsuyama City, Shikoku, Japan, where he built the "Ichikusa-an" and ended his wandering life in the clouds, and he continued to write haiku. The following year, he died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 58 after getting drunk in Ichikusa-an. Before his death, the mountain fire wrote: "The clouds rise, the white clouds rise, and I step towards the white clouds." "How free, how noble, just like his poetic life."

Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

Half a year before Yamato's death, his self-compiled haiku collection "Grass and Wood Pagoda" was published in Tokyo. The collection of poems is a selection of 701 haiku, which is the work of his life and pours out his full strength. These haiku are bold and innovative, beautifully written, and have a strong Zen connotation, with simplicity, loneliness, and impermanence at the heart of their expression. The haiku is full of love for his hometown and motherland, and also reflects the author's sense of enthusiasm for harmonious coexistence with nature.

After his death, Yamato Fire was famous in the literary world with a unique haiku writing style, and was deeply loved by people, and was known as one of the representatives of Japan's "free haiku". The mountain fire has also become the pride of the hometown of Fangfu City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The son of this large landowner of the farming family, this ascetic monk who traveled the world, this romantic poet who wrote countless beautiful haiku sentences, with his own legendary life experience, the poet's conscience, resisted the war, prayed for peace, and won the eternal respect and remembrance of the people.

About the Author

Japanese monk and poet, born rich, hated militarism but cared about China under fire

Liu Yong, a native of Mianyang, Sichuan, is now a civil servant who loves to write literature and history, and has published books such as "Wen Tong Commentary".

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