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Japanese period novelist Shuhei Fujisawa: "Negative" romance and "positive" life

author:The Paper

Wang Yue

The drums at the end of work sounded, and the Qingbing guards immediately packed up the paperwork at hand and walked out of the office faster than anyone. He muttered goodbye polite words at the door, and no one paid attention to him, and no one looked at him in particular. Qingbing guards go home quickly, this is what everyone has long been accustomed to..."

This is a passage from the Japanese era novelist Shuhei Fujisawa's "Twilight Kiyobei". Change a few words, this protagonist is like a Buddhist worker. No overtime, no remuneration, the superior pressure to take on a heavy responsibility, promised to do a good job and even promote three levels, he was not moved, insisted on not being affected. Because I took on the task, I had to work overtime. However, the refusal to work overtime has a reason, rushing home is to serve his wife who is sick in bed to eat and untie her hands, he said that "this kind of thing is not easy to entrust to outsiders." This person can be called a "male moral model", but in the workplace, there is no day to emerge. The novel gives him the identity of a samurai, disobeying the orders of the lord, ranking the country's affairs after his wife goes to the toilet, seriously violating the spirit of Bushido, and is to be expelled from the team. But it is more important to go against bushido, to follow one's heart, and to conform to humanity. After all, leaving aside professional identity, who is not a living person?

Pretending to be a samurai of Edo writing about today's workers, Shuhei Fujisawa is a professional household, and his pen is a low-level and marginal person with a lot of personality in some organizations. As the famous director Yoji Yamada said: "The hidden atmosphere is the source of the charm of Fujisawa Shuhei's works." ”

Japanese period novelist Shuhei Fujisawa: "Negative" romance and "positive" life

Shuhei Fujisawa

Shuhei Fujisawa's books have sold more than 23 million copies in Japan and are still being reprinted more than two decades after his death. In the past two years, The twelve volumes of Fujisawa Shuhei's works, including "Dusk Kiyobei Guard" and the "Hidden Sword" series, have been published in China, which selects the best works of Fujisawa's massive works, and has finally come out recently. Especially in the latest launch of the "Langke Sun and Moon Copy" tetralogy, some people even stayed up for a few nights to watch the big addiction as soon as they got their hands on it, and some people complained that Fujisawa hurt his own pocket and his myopia degree rose again.

Fujisawa's swordsmen are so real that it is hard to dislike, bending their waists for five buckets of rice, fighting for personal dignity, and insisting on personal values and chivalrous spirit in the nine-to-five. Where is the spirit of "chivalry" in today's era? 996 pressing, chai rice oil and salt pickling, still have not lost their self-position, free soul, can be regarded as a kind of daily "hero". There is a sentence that summarizes the three giants of Japanese era novels, which is very refined: "Shotaro Ikeba, who wants to swing the profound reading of Ikeba Shotaro, who desperately wants to make a trace, and Shuhei Fujisawa, who has a dead heart for the hair." Essayist Li Changsheng said: "Fujisawa Shuhei's writing is beautiful with its light essence, like sashimi and sake... It is written about the undercurrent of the sinking of the great waves. Indeed, in Fujisawa's book, there are no successful people without great achievements, no front and back waves, only a clear undercurrent. There is a sentence on the waist cover of "Hidden Sword Lonely Shadow Copy": "Where there is any success in this world, it is already a win without losing dignity", Andazawa's work is like this, he pays attention to ordinary people who refuse to be attached and refuse to be consumed.

In fact, the great writer Shuhei Fujisawa is also a free and loose ordinary person in private, in the "Novel Peripheral" he showed himself, wrote some small things about visiting the zoo, watching singers audition variety shows, and because of fear of pain, after taking anesthesia, he slipped away from the dentist's hands, and confided in the editor who came to get the manuscript: "If there is any place, you can not write a novel, just reading the novel can earn the manuscript fee." "Big writers, like ordinary workers, dream of lying flat.

Japanese period novelist Shuhei Fujisawa: "Negative" romance and "positive" life

"Ranger Sun and Moon Copy"

Interestingly, even Haruki Murakami, who "drank whiskey," was attracted by Fujisawa's samurai who drank Miso's soup, saying, "I was once obsessed with Fujisawa Shuhei's novels and read a lot. The story is interesting, the article is also beautiful, and I think he is the most intelligent writer in The Japanese post-war novelist. Shuhei Fujisawa is indeed a master of storytelling, and there are dozens of film and television dramas and stage plays adapted from his works. Japanese national director Yoji Yamada adapted Fujisawa's original work three times, and "Twilight Kiyobei" swept dozens of Japanese academy awards into the bag in one fell swoop. Hou Xiaoxian also publicly expressed his admiration for Fujisawa Zhouping, recommending Zhang Zhen and Shu Qi and Ruan Jingtian to read Fujisawa when filming "Assassin Nie Yinniang" to let the actors find feelings. In order to play a blind swordsman in "Hidden Sword Autumn Wind Copy", Kimura Takuya did not hesitate to push off the overseas drama contract and sacrifice the image "bald". In the Japanese literary circles, there are even people who are obsessed with Fujisawa to write books about him, such as Inoue-chia, and hand-drawn maps to Find Fujisawa's hometown.

At first glance, Shuhei Fujisawa wrote a book to care for the ordinary public quite Versailles, and he himself was obviously so brilliant and successful. In fact, the first half of Fujisawa's life can not be described as bumpy. But it can also be said that without those ups and downs, there may be one less writer Inozawa Shuhei and one more good teacher or good journalist.

Shuhei Fujisawa, whose real name is Ryuji Kosuga, is a native of Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan. Tsuruoka is the largest city in northeastern Japan, but with a population of only 150,000, facing the gloomy Sea of Japan and snowing heavily in winter. Fujisawa's fictional stage for the novel, "Kaisaka Domain", is a small domain facing the sea and backed by a hillside. According to Kao, many of the scenes in Fujisawa's novels correspond to the scenery of their hometown. Kaisaka means in Japanese: the slope of the sea in front of the sea level; the realm line between the kingdom of the sea god and the human world. Fujisawa is romantic enough, virtual and real, so that the hometown that no longer exists looms in the pen.

In 1949, Ryuji Kosuga graduated from Yamagata Normal School at the age of 22 and naturally went to his hometown middle school as a Chinese teacher, he was full of style, "bodybuilding, athletic all-round, white and handsome", deeply loved by students. At that time, he graduated from the normal college and belonged to the local elite. Ms. Kosuga would write a small script that would allow students to perform at the cultural festival. However, two years later, during a physical examination, Mr. Kosuga was diagnosed with tuberculosis and had to leave the podium to begin a long period of treatment and recuperation. At that time, tuberculosis was a difficult disease, and the inner torment of himself and his family was later mentioned by Fujisawa in his memoirs.

In 1953, Fujisawa, who was still called Kosuga, ventured to undergo unskilled surgery, opening his chest three times and removing large lobes of his lungs. The process was dangerous, but he finally survived, and the whole person was thin and out of shape. But in his memoirs, the nursing home seems to be a living paradise, with inspiring patients, an initial love of poetry, and a conscientious nurse. He wrote: "(Being able to survive the ghost gate) was mostly due to the nurses who were changliangliao at that time. It was a group of well-skilled, agile nurses. They are cheerful and joking, but they have a solid hand of technology, and seeing their confident movements, my only thought is that I can entrust my body to them. The faces of the nurses who were pushing themselves through the corridors of the hospital were always vividly imprinted on his mind, which may be one of the roots of the often powerful female characters in his works.

During his convalescence, Fujisawa, who had always loved literature, grew rapidly, especially reading a large number of foreign detective novels. In terms of reading taste, Fujisawa is actually very Westernized, and he has quite an intersection with Haruki Murakami, who is obsessed with him, and some of his works seem to be tough guy novels that travel back to the Edo period.

Japanese period novelist Shuhei Fujisawa: "Negative" romance and "positive" life

The Story of the Bridge

Six years later, when fujisawa, who had been discharged from the hospital, could not return to the podium, he came to Tokyo to do "Kyo Drift" and took a job as a newspaper reporter. After several bankruptcies, he had to go east and west to find another job. At the age of 32, Fujisawa married his fellow countryman Etsuko, and the following year he joined the Japanese Food Economy Newspaper as a journalist, and finally settled down. In the fourth year of marriage, the beloved daughter Zhan Zi was born, and just as the couple was immersed in joy, bad luck struck again, and the 28-year-old new mother fell ill with acute cancer. As soon as her daughter was born, she was sent back to her hometown, and Fujisawa went back and forth to the office and ward every day to take care of his sick wife, like a "dusk guard". His dying wife encouraged her husband to write, and that's when he began contributing short stories. For the first time, the pseudonym "Fujisawa Shuhei" was used. Originally, "Fujisawa" was the name of the wife's birthplace, and "Zhou" was taken from the name of the wife's family. "Ping" probably hopes that his wife can escape the disease safely. However, Etsuko died a few months later, leaving her infant daughter behind, leaving behind the man with the pen name "Shuhei Fujisawa".

After the death of his wife, Fujisawa lived with his mother, who was in his seventies, and his young daughter. The old mother suffers from eye disease and waist disease, and can only help with limited help, and the burden of pulling her daughter still falls on the shoulders of the novice father. Although he was busy with newspaper work, the parent contact book of his daughter's kindergarten was still neatly written and densely packed. Another six years, my daughter is going to elementary school. Fujisawa met his second wife, Kazuko, and kazuko's arrival freed Fujisawa from household chores and gave him the energy to write. In the fourth year of remarriage, Fujisawa won the Naoki Prize for "The Ring of Assassination". At the age of 46, he finally started his life as a professional novelist.

In the 1980s, Fujisawa ushered in the peak of his creative period, and his masterpieces were repeated. Novels, biographical literature, essays, diligent writing, he left more than seventy kinds of works. He has won numerous awards and has been awarded the Order of the Purple Ribbon. The judges of the Naoki Prize have been appointed for more than ten years. From 1992 to 1994, the complete works of Shuhei Fujisawa were published in twenty-three volumes. In 1997, hepatitis infected with blood transfusions when treating tuberculosis at a young age invaded for many years, resulting in hepatic insufficiency, and the disease in his youth eventually took this person away at the age of 69.

His life was entangled with diseases and changed the trajectory of his life by diseases, but illness also provided an opportunity for the birth of "Writer Fujisawa". The two wives are the pillars of the "Writer Fujisawa" structure. The sudden death of his first wife, Etsuko, evoked the "negative romance" in Fujisawa's heart. He wrote: "My motivation for starting to write novels was gray, so what I wrote was also gray. I don't want to write that kind of novel with a happy ending. I felt that the novel I started had such a toxin, which was one of the reasons I chose to write a novel of the times. Lady Etsuko is the source of the name "Shuhei Fujisawa" and the source of the cool tones in Fujisawa's works. The companionship and care of the second lady and son gave him the condition to concentrate on writing, and her presence was the realistic basis for the birth of his works, and the source of warm and constant feelings in the works.

Rarely, male writers write about women, and they do not write about the vulnerable, asylum-seeking second sex. Even in the samurai patriarchal world, Fujisawa's women accounted for half or even stronger of the scores. Miyuki Miyabe especially talked about her love for Fujisawa's women: "Mr. Fujisawa's women are always so brave and tenacious, they do not seek male protection. When men hit a wall and are depressed, they show the kind of toughness that pulls men forward and pushes them forward. "There are also books by writers who talk deeply about women in The works of Shuhei Fujisawa. Perhaps Fujisawa is one of the best male writers in terms of appreciating and portraying women.

Famous Japanese writers have died, and fans often give him the date of his death according to his works, such as Osamu Dazai's "Cherry Taboo", Ryunosuke Wasagawa's "Kappa Taboo", Mishima Yukio's "Worry Country Taboo", and Kyoko Seiko's "White Cherry Taboo", Edogawa's "Pomegranate Taboo"... Shuhei Fujisawa's "Cold Plum Taboo" is on January 26 every year, which is the season when the cold plums bloom in the Tsuruoka area. Fujisawa's works also have many depictions of floating dark incense in the ice and snow; and Chinese readers are probably more able to think of "plum blossom fragrance from bitter cold", compared with Fujisawa's life, it is really very appropriate.

Editor-in-Charge: Zang Jixian

Proofreader: Luan Meng

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