Yasunari Kawabata once wrote: "Japan is full of flower spots, and the works of mirror flowers are famous places of interest."
Izumi Kyokohana is a famous Japanese writer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his works were romantic and strange, and he was hailed as a pioneer of fantasy literature. The most important literary figure in the Japanese literary world, the first Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata (who wrote "The Dancing Girl of Izumi"), and Ryunosuke Wasagawa, who wrote "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest", were deeply influenced by Izumi Kyoka.
Izumi Kyoka was originally named Shotaro. His father, Izumi Kiyoshi, was a skilled gold ivory carver, and his mother, Ah Suzu, was born into a family of Japanese Noh actors. When Kyoka was five years old, she became interested in her mother's collection of cursive paper with color illustrations (popular novels of the Edo period), and he liked to listen to her mother's explanations of the stories, so he was influenced by traditional Japanese culture from an early age. He went to elementary school at the age of seven, and with the encouragement of his father, he often copied illustrations on grass and paper in his spare time. Two years later, her unfortunate mother died at the age of twenty-nine. Jinghua's two younger sisters were successively adopted. This kind of life and death of his relatives made him feel lonely at a young age and develop a sentimental character.
At the age of 11, Izumi Went with her father to visit the statue of Lady Maya (the mother of Shakyamuni Buddha), and was greatly touched because the statue of Lady Maya resembled her own mother, and since then, Izumi Has believed in Lady Maya all her life.
During his studies, he borrowed many novels to read, and especially liked the works of Ozaki Momiba. In November 1890, he went to Tokyo with the ambition of becoming a novelist, bent on worshipping Ozaki as his teacher, but could not find a way. He lived a life of displacement for nearly a year, suffering the suffering of the lower classes. In October of the following year, he got a letter of introduction from a relative and went to visit Ozaki, who lived in Yokoji-cho, Ushigaku-ku, Tokyo, and became a doorman of the Ozaki family. He stayed at the Ozaki family until February 1895, during which time he devoted himself to learning to write and read strange novels such as Akira Ueda's Tale of the Rainy Moon (1786). His debut novel was Kanya Zoemon, serialized in the Kyoto Sunrise Shimbun from May 1893. This work has a strong idea of praising good and punishing evil. After the death of his father, he returned to his hometown for a time, and because he had no life, he had suicidal thoughts. He sent his work to Ozaki several times and published it after Ozaki revised it. The pen name "Mirror Flower" was introduced, and a novel entitled "Mirror Flower Water Moon" was proposed, and Momiji named it on the spot. At that time, Momiji was twenty-five years old, and Jinghua was nineteen years old. Ozaki's enthusiasm for Mirror Flower has been passed down as a good story in the history of Japanese literature.
Izumi Kyoka had a great affection for master Ozaki Momiba throughout his life, and for Izumi Kyoka, the master was not only the teacher who taught him writing instruction, but also took in his benefactor when he had no food and clothing. However, such a teacher who was like a father and a brother made Quan Jinghua once in a dilemma and was in pain.
At the age of 26, Quan Jinghua met the love of her life---- Quan Ling (泉すゞ). Ling is a geisha who plays the piano and sings and dances at the banquet to entertain the guests. Quan Jinghua was introduced to Ling, and since then, he fell in love with Ling at first sight, secretly redeemed Ling, and lived together. This made his mentor Ozaki Momiba extremely angry, saying "If you want a woman, you don't want a master." Quan Jinghua could only temporarily break up with Ling. It was not until after the death of his master that he and Ling were reunited and never grew old.
It is worth mentioning that Quan Jinghua and Ling have bracelets engraved with each other's names and never leave their bodies. The deep love between husband and wife can be seen. Later, Quan Jinghua wrote a novel called "Women's Diagram", and the prototype of the heroine was Ling, which had such a famous line:
"The so-called 'breakup', that's what the geisha said, to me now when I say break up, it's better to ask me to die."
The name Quan Jinghua is already beautiful enough, and the women in his pen are stuck in love, and the earthly happiness mirror flowers and moons, and finally with the demise of life, they are kept for a long time, which is quite a bit of Liang Zhu's meaning. His scenes are all filled with ambiguous colors, colors, shapes, breaths, and movements, all so subtle, separated by a layer of what, these become the props of the spring mirror flower to stir the reader's reverie. For example, in "Takano Seon": "A woman stands barefoot on a flat stone, her instep submerged in water, her toes curled up." "Usually, however, there is not much embellishment, placed in the mountain waterfall in the text, but it makes people palpitate, making you blush and secretly imagine." Ryunosuke Wasagawa once said that Izumi Kyōka's "writing is both brilliant and pale, almost arguably the highest performance that the Japanese language can achieve." ”
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【Author】[Day] Izumi Mirror Flower
[Translators] Pan Mingxin, Xiao Li
【Responsible editor】Pan Mingxin
A long time ago, in a remote Japanese mountain village, the night fork pond on the mountain often broke the embankment and flooded, endangering the villagers. This legend has been passed down from generation to generation, and in modern times, only one old man is still holding on to this legend and ringing the bell on time. Before the old man died, he entrusted the task of ringing the bell to Akira Hagiwara, a young man who escaped from urban civilization, and he and his wife Lily guarded here and lived a simple and happy life. But the people in the village who have lost their faith are jealous of their lives, and their violent actions seem to have gradually awakened the long-dormant Night Fork Pond...
The script cleverly uses the intention of the bell to interlace the scenes of the mortal and the otherworld, forming a dual structure. The work has been adapted to the stage many times by Noh performing artists, and the film adaptation is directed by Masahiro Shinoda. In 2004, the famous cult film director Takashi Miike also adapted it into a stage play.
【Book Title】Order Book (Notes)
【Author】 [Sun] Izumi Kyoka
[Translator] Li Xiangdong
[Responsible editor] Li Xiangdong
The Order Book is a novel by the Japanese romantic writer Izumi Kyoka, set in Yoshihara Yuko, the bustling place of Tokyo's first wind and moon during the Meiji period. Gosuke, a sharpsmith who sharpens his razors for Yoshihara's prostitutes, discovers a strange thing that puzzles him, and every nineteenth lunar calendar, his sharpener shop will lose a razor, and the lost razor will suddenly appear in an unexpected place in a brothel in Yoshihara, and sometimes even accompanied by terrible things... The strange incident originally originated from the suicide tragedy of a prostitute in the early Meiji era who was entangled in love and hate by a prostitute. Although it has been many years, the ghost of the resentful prostitute has not dissipated, and finally on the snowy night of another lunar calendar nineteenth, she has taken revenge on the descendants of the negative heart lang.
In Quan Jinghua's pen, in the bizarre world of money and carnal desire in the Brothel of Qinglou, although there is still true love, the women living in this world are humble, red-faced and thin-lived, and the shadow of fate is depressed and demonic, so that love has died before it can really sprout.