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The Life in Postwar Japan Women’s Poetry
日本硏究
2019,
(50), pp.149-166
Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
Research Area : Japanese Language and Literature
Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
Research Area : Japanese Language and Literature
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The starting point of Japan women’s poetry is in 1950s. After war, It was formed various legal system for being grow up the social position of women and then going on 1960s. At that time, the poetries related to war appeared the attitude of gazing at the present and future life, it was to be freed by the direct scars of the war. Women were relatively free from the memory of war compared to men, naturally, their poetic interests were seen as the gaze of ordinary everyday life or the pursuit of life as a woman. For example, Isigaki Rin aspired to a minor life in a deprived daily, and Ibaragi Noriko and Sinkawa Kazue asked themselves about overcoming sexual handicaps as a woman and the sceptical meaning of social life through it actively. Their poetical common feature was the mother and further more the perception of life based on the subjectivity of femininity, it has passed to woman’s poetries boom in 1970·80s. It is the basis to view the life as an identity of postwar women’s poetry.
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