Everyone in the world is suffering from troubles, there is not a single person who has a stain, there is no one in the world, those who have always dreamed of the sublime and great, selfish, unscrupulous, full of evil, all people want to be saved. - "InuYasha" Kirito
This is the classic sentence of the Japanese anime "InuYasha", recently, the news that "InuYasha" was launched on the b station has surprised many people, and the return of the childhood series of anime has made many people re-review this childhood classic series of works. The emotional entanglement between the half-demon dog Night Fork and Kirito and Ge Wei has caused many people to be entangled because of the problem of taking sides.
Every character in the work has a heart-wrenching story, which is why many people remember this anime deeply. Whether it is inuyasha, who has not been accepted by half-human, half-demon, or Kirito, a witch who is bent on protecting the village and eventually gives up her life. In many works, imperfect characters are often more impressive, and many Japanese film and television works will use this method to shape the characters of the works. Japanese people often pursue a state of surprise and perfection, but in terms of aesthetic taste, they have a unique recognition and praise for "incomplete beauty", that is, "incomplete beauty", and eventually derive a culture.
What is beauty? The definition of beauty varies from country to country and culture. Beauty has been constantly being redefined and recognized, in Japan, due to the special geographical environment and cultural development, a unique identification and appreciation of "mutilated beauty" has been formed, unlike any other country, this special cultural consciousness has penetrated into the spirit and daily life of the Japanese.
The geographical environment of Japan's volcanic and earthquake disasters makes Japanese people full of reverence for nature, and it is easy to have a sense of uneasiness about the joys of life that will disappear at any time. While revering nature, they also lament the impermanence of the world and the ease of life. The variability of the natural environment has given the Japanese a unique aesthetic idea of things, "mutilated beauty". The Japanese believe that the imperfect beauty arises from two states, one is that it has not yet reached perfection, and the other is the process of gradually disappearing after reaching perfection, similar to "the moon is profit and loss".
Imperfection includes imperfection, incompleteness, impermanence, and is an unstable, passing, unfinished manifestation. Mutilated beauty is the beauty in philosophy, harmony and difference, if the great is lacking, there is a concept of mutilated beauty in the virtual. In the Japanese aesthetic concept, mutilated beauty is a kind of emotional sustenance, enlightening wisdom, bringing strength and increasing vitality. Experience and appreciate this kind of mutilated beauty, when the mutilation exists in the whole of beauty, reflecting the connotation of beauty, the local defects just set off the overall sparkling flash, and the mutilated beauty thus constituted can give people a unique aesthetic enjoyment.
The Japanese love cherry blossoms, the beauty of cherry blossoms that fade away after they bloom; they worship the spirit of Bushido, and "cutting the belly" is considered to be a lofty spiritual consciousness, which preserves the brilliance of life in that moment. The Japanese people's love for crippled beauty is reflected in many ways, and anime, as a form of expression of Japanese cultural transmission, has been reflected in many works.
1. About InuYasha
InuYasha is based on Japanese manga artist Rumiko Takahashi (Japanese female manga artist and one of the representative manga artists of the Elementary School Museum, whose representative works are "Fukusei Kid", "A Moment Together", "Crazy Horse 1/2", "InuYasha", "Reincarnation of the Realm", etc. A television anime adaptation of the manga of the same name, the film was created by Sunrise Animation Corporation (SunriseSha, one of the Japanese animation production companies, founded in September 1947 and famous for making robot animations. ) production, broadcast from October 16, 2000 to September 13, 2004. Later, 26 episodes of Inuyasha's Epilogue were produced, which aired from October 3, 2009 to March 29, 2010, for a total of 193 episodes. In addition, there are 4 theatrical versions: "Thoughts Beyond Time and Space", "Dream City in the Mirror", "The Sword of The Domineering Sword under the Heavens", and "Penglai Island of the Red Lotus".
InuYasha poster
Synopsis: InuYasha is the son of the Warring States period youkai Tooth King and the human princess Sixteen Nights, as a non-human and non-demon half-demon dog, Inuyasha is excluded by both sides, and he is bent on competing for the treasure Of The Jade of the Four Souls in order to become a real youkai. In order to protect the village and purify the Jade of the Four Souls, the witch Kirito constantly fights with the youkai who come to fight. Through continuous fighting and understanding, InuYasha and Kirito fall in love, and agree to use the Jade of The Four Souls to purify Inuyasha into a human, and the two can stay together for life.
Tragedy happens on the agreed day, Kirito dies, Inuyasha is sealed... Five hundred years later, Kirito's soul was reincarnated along with the Jade of the Four Souls as the modern maiden Ge Wei, who was forcibly taken to the Warring States Period by the Hundred Foot Youkai and inadvertently unlocked the seal of Inuyasha. Later, when retrieving the Jade of the Four Souls that was snatched by the Corpse Dancing Bird, Ge Wei inadvertently shot him and scattered it everywhere, in order to retrieve the Jade of the Four Souls that had been shattered everywhere, Ge Wei and InuYasha, with the help of the mage Maitreya, the exorcist Coral, the fork-tailed demon cat Mica, and the little fox demon Shippo, fought against the great villain Nero, and looked around for the Jade Fragments of the Four Souls, and began an adventurous journey.
Behind each character in "InuYasha", there is a sentimental story, the Inuyasha that is not accommodated by human monsters, in order to protect the dead Kirito of the Jade of the Four Souls, the deep love of Inuyasha but witnessed him again and again willing to give up for kirito Govi, each of them is kind and beautiful, but the story behind it makes people feel that it is not very desired, so it is remembered deeply. Although life is not enough, the heart has always longed for perfection, so it is called imperfect beauty.
2. The embodiment of "mutilated beauty" in "InuYasha"
No one thing, no one is perfect. But this does not prevent us from creating beauty and appreciating beauty, because imperfection is also a kind of beauty.
The character settings of several protagonists in "InuYasha" seem to be incomplete. The protagonist Inuyasha, the half-human, half-demon, is born, leaving him intolerable to both worlds. Humans reject him as an outlier, and the monsters can't accept him. In order to survive, he continued to practice to make himself strong and not be bullied. The only human who was willing to accept him, Kirito, promised him to purify him with the Jade of Four Souls for love, and the two could be together for a lifetime, and he thought he finally had companionship. As a result, he was sealed by his only lover, Kirito, and slept with anger and unwillingness for 50 years. The deception and "betrayal" of the lover, the death of kirito, are all imperfections of Inuyasha's life, and the love that was once there seems to be a cloud of smoke.
The Sealed InuYasha Fork
All her life to protect the village and guard the jade of the four souls, Kirito has been fighting with different youkai, as a witch, she is beautiful and powerful, sad and lonely can only be buried deep in her heart. Kirito is beautiful, whether it is a beautiful appearance, a strong heart, even when she exists in the world by resentment and hatred, her character is still good.
The acquaintance and love of Inuyasha once made her think that she could become an ordinary girl and live a simple and happy life. But the tragedy came unexpectedly, and fate made her seal inuyasha, with hatred and unwillingness to die. 50 years later, she resided in a body made of clay and ashes with a mutilated soul, as she said to Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, do you think I look like a human?" At this time, kirito exists in the world in this way, even if the previous misunderstandings can be solved, but in the end it is still a person, and can not find the final destination. From a realistic point of view, the body of the orange stem is mutilated, it is a body made of clay without temperature, but her appearance, her soul are beautiful, and the life of the orange stem is a manifestation of the beauty of the mutilated, born and can not be loved, but there is a relict and independent beauty.
Witch Orange Terrier
Ge Wei, possessing the reincarnation soul of Kirito, has the existence of the Jade of the Four Souls in her body. By chance, she traveled back to the Warring States period and rescued the Inuyasha in the seal, and she was mistaken for life at first sight. In the emotional entanglement of Inuyasha, Kirito, and Ge Wei, Ge Wei is the later one, although she does not realize it. Strong and optimistic, Ge Wei is too fond of dog Night Fork, and admits that kirito is the dark side of her heart. The entangled feelings between InuYasha and Kirito, InuYasha wants to give up her life to die for Kirito, she has been in pain, confused, and Govi's heart has struggled:
When I came back here, I kept thinking, thinking about InuYasha, Kirito, and myself. When I know how you feel, I know I can't stay here anymore..... I also thought a lot about Kirito, and Kirito and I are completely different, even if I am the reincarnation of Kirito. However, I am not a bellflower, my heart is my own. But, you know, I can understand one feeling of Kirito, a feeling that I have, and that is goodbye to Inuyasha's side. For some reason, whenever I think that Kirito will feel the same way I do, I feel much calmer, that is the same wish. So, I plucked up the courage to meet you..... I want to be with you, Inuyasha, I can't forget you! InuYasha, answer me a question... I can stay with you
Govi's inner monologue contains many of her entanglements, and she finally chooses to face this problem. In terms of character, she has her own imperfect and even dark side, but she chooses to change to face her, and even goes with Inuyasha to guard kirito, and finally gets the sublimation of the soul.
Some hesitant Govi
Kagura, a tragic figure who yearns for freedom. Kagura is the messenger of the wind, and she has always longed for freedom after nairobi has taken away her heart. Although she surrendered to Nairo, she secretly kept looking for an opportunity to get rid of Nairo. She longs to have a heart, she wants to have joys and sorrows like a human being, she longs for freedom, to go where she wants to go, to do what she wants to do. She gave her life for her freedom, and she smiled and fell into a field of daisies and saw the killing pill she wanted to see. "Killing Pills: Are You Leaving?" Kagura: Well, enough is enough. Finally, met you. "Kagura's death is moving, her yearning and pursuit of freedom has aroused most people's thinking about the meaning of life, why am I alive?" What am I living for? Kagura without the heart is incomplete, and although she has experienced hardships on the road to perfection, she has finally gained the heart, the joys and sorrows of people, and has gained freedom, although the price of obtaining is the loss of life, the Japanese pursue the shining beauty of life moments, and the Kagura that traces the meaning of life is beautiful.
Kagura disappeared in front of the Killing Pill
Taoists advocate quiet and inaction, with the purpose of holding on to the defective, and the imperfect beauty is the embodiment of the development to the extreme. Virtue has some strengths and forgets the form, is not burdened by external objects, does not hurt the body with things, abandons the prejudice of appearance, and pays attention to the perfection of the spirit.
The unique aesthetic concept of "beauty with imperfections" is a cultural characteristic of the Japanese people under the special environment and ideas, and has had a lot of influence on the lives and literary works of the Japanese people. This kind of aesthetic has become an important cultural psychology unique to the Japanese people, involving a lot of aspects. In the hearts of the Japanese, imperfection also has its good side, he can urge people to continue to learn and progress, change their mentality, and may have different gains.
The main purpose of "InuYasha" is to explore people's hearts and promote justice and love, but it has a slight meaning, expressed by the characters in the story, and many details need to be slowly understood. In addition to the finishing touches in the title, the author likes to express everyone's thoughts with psychological descriptions, "The human soul is no different from a stone if it is not honed." In addition, the setting of many props also has its deep meaning, and the most important of them is the origin of the Jade of the Four Souls.
Jade of Four Souls
The Jade of the Four Souls in InuYasha is a treasure that can bring power to the youkai. The theory of the four souls comes from a concept in Japanese Shintoism, the so-called "one spirit and four souls" refers to any living being has four different natures of the soul, the human heart is affected by the different proportion of each soul.
The doctrine of one spirit and four souls holds that the mind is a spirit associated with heaven and is composed of four kinds of souls, which is called the one spirit and four souls. According to historical records, the Four Souls of the One Spirit theory was founded by the Japanese scholar Honda Kintoku between the end of the shogunate and the Meiji period. Later, his disciple Nagasawa Yusuke, Ozehito Rensaburo, developed it into the doctrine that "not only is the human heart composed of one spirit and four souls, but all things are the same." In the struggle with the youkai, the powerful witch Cuizi fuses herself with the soul of the youkai and shoots out of the body together, forming the jade of the four souls, forming a crystal covering the soul and the heart.
The Jade of the Four Souls is a treasure that can bring power to the youkai. The theory of the four souls comes from a kind of Shinto concept, which holds that all things in heaven and earth have four souls, "wilderness, harmony, strangeness, and luck", the four souls of the desolate soul, the main courage of the desolate soul, and the soul as a relative, the strange soul is born of wisdom, the fortunate soul is loved, and the four souls are integrated into one, which constitutes the heart in the human body. Inuyasha represents the "desolate soul" of Yong, Shippo represents the "peace soul" of the relatives, Maitreya represents the "strange soul" of wisdom, and coral represents the "lucky soul" of love.
According to the different users, the Jade of the Four Souls will change into two morphological characteristics, good and evil: when it falls into the hands of people with unhealthy hearts, it will evolve the power of evil and become a "qu spirit"; in the hands of people with pure hearts, it can be purified into pure power and become a "straight spirit".
Orange is orange in huainan, and orange is orange in huaibei
The Jade of the Four Souls will be divided into good and evil depending on the owner. In the hands of a person with an unhealthy mind like Nero, he would be polluted; in the hands of a person with a pure heart like Kirito and Govi, he would be purified. Although there are two sides of good and evil, the Qu Spirit and the Straight Spirit in the Jade are still fighting each other. Qu Ling of the Jade of The Four Souls once used Nairo's body to appear to fight against the Killing Pill and Inuyasha, and sealed it for fear of the spiritual power of the twilight. In the end, the killing pill, which was still inferior to justice, was destroyed by it.
With the Jade of The Four Souls as the main theme, "InuYasha" is actually a huge work of "heart" growth, as a half-human, half-demon inuyasha that is not accepted by the world, from a being who does not believe in anyone, full of vigilance, because of the love and redemption of Kirito and Govi, he has become able to trust her, and his heart has become kind, from the original cold heart to hot, and fell in love with Govi. Other people, such as Di Nian'er, Purple Weaving, Golden Curse Silver Cauldron, Ash, May (Cuckoo), Bai Xin Ren, etc., are also growing in their hearts. The cute Nobunaga and the terrible and extremely evil Momoko, both of them have a powerful influence on Inuyasha's heart. In the several main characters of "InuYasha", each person has their own characteristics, Ge Wei's tolerance, Kirito's final abandonment for love, Inuyasha's final choice, Maitreya's wisdom, the coral representing love, from no emotion to the killing pill that derives seven passions and six desires, Kagura who yearns for freedom, and even Nairo, who represents evil, the different characters are portrayed very distinctly in their hearts.
The boundary between love and hate, good and evil is actually not so obvious, many times it is people who determine the final direction of things, Shakespeare once said: "There is no good or evil in things, but thoughts." Everything is nothing but the human heart.
Mo Ziyun: "Sweet melon bitterness, there is no beauty in the world." "The world sighs that the world is impermanent, the mutilated beauty has evolved into a cultural phenomenon, does not mean that all the mutilations have their aesthetic meaning, the mutilated beauty refers to the slight lack, but the heart is beautiful, in order to call it imperfect beauty, from which there is a harvest, such a lack can produce beauty." The reason why the Venus with the broken arm is beautiful is because it abandons the part to obtain the completeness, and the Venus without the arms gives the reader unlimited imagination space.
Mutilated beauty will not only be impressive, but also enlightening, and reflection after witnessing it will be more effective. Imperfection will make people sigh, but if you look at and think about these problems from a different perspective, you may have a feeling of willow and light. People who have experienced pain and suffering tend to be stronger in their hearts, and difficulties will also bring people the strength to transcend. Shklovsky (Russian literary critic and novelist) said:
The purpose of art is to provide things as observable and visible, not as recognizable as knowable. The technique of art is to singularize things, deepen the difficulty of form, and increase the difficulty and time of feeling, because the process of feeling art is itself the purpose and should be extended.
After psychologically making up for the defects, people can achieve qualitative growth, the beauty of the defects comes from all aspects of life, and the unique geographical environment has created the spiritual and cultural psychology of the Japanese people. Mutilated beauty is a unique cultural psychology produced by the Japanese people different from other countries and nationalities, and the imperfect beauty is embodied in the life of the Japanese people and literary and other works of art, forming a unique style of beauty of the Japanese people, and finally penetrating into the spiritual world of the Japanese.