漱石の『草枕』と透谷の『蓬萊曲』のモチーフと 主題

Abstract

Soseki said that he wrote Kusamakura as a special story for the feeling of beauty like Haiku, Japanese traditional poem. He also said that it has no clear plot. We can see similar motif and subject of A Play Horay in Kusamakura. A Play Horay was written 15 years ago before Kusamakura. Each literature describes the beautiful woman like a ghost or an illusion who has relationship with the other world. The heros of these literatures are always deluded and amazed by beautiful woman. We can feel that this woman probably tempts him to the world of death. But the hero of Kusamakura tries to paint this woman who tried to leap out of a cliff even though the hero of A Play Horay died on the top of the cliff at last. We can say that the subject of these literatures are leaving this harassed world and entering into the spiritual world. But the former devoted himself to the spiritual picture and poem, the latter entered into the spiritual world actually. Soseki wrote that “This world is not created by God nor devil. There is no other world which we can move however this world is painful to live.” Soseki may be afraid of tragedy of Tokoku as to die searching for pure spiritual world.