小杉未醒「髑髏塔の筆者」論

Abstract

「Dokuroto no hissya 」is the poem that showing a tendency that Kosugi Misei's anti-war thinking which formed through the Japanese- Russian War Experience, develop into a deeper reflection on the anti-war art and anti-war artist. This paper, as an important starting point for the Misei's authentic deployment of anti-war art, also the work has had a significant impact on the activities of misei's anti-war art activity that cross the poetry and the picture. Though, it did not ever discuss academically. So I analyzed 「Dokuroto no hissya 」intensively, cast light on the birth background of the poem, the anti-war thinking and attiude of the poetic narrator appears at poem, and significance as anti-war works. The main results of the study were as follows: First, 「Dokuroto no hissya 」is the work that, Misei's anti-war thinking that clearly indicated in the 「Kaere ototo」, for the first time, triggered by the death of Vereshchagin, Russia's anti-war painter, symbolizes the aspect that deepened through the deep reflection about anti-war art and vocation as an anti-war artist. Second, 「Dokuroto no hissya 」, embodied the meaning of the anti-war art which against war, and critical power to poetic diction, also, by highlighting the image of an artist fighting the war, showed new area of the anti-war poem. Focusing on the problem of art and artists that against the war, in that, embodied it to poetic diction,「Dokuroto no hissya 」has a unique phase in the depolyment of MEIJI anti-war literature. Third, anti-war thinking and the principles of poetic configuration in 「Dokuroto no hissya 」, became important poetic foundations of the birth of 「Ikusa no tsumi」, Misei's typical feature-length series poetry. Also, principle of anti-war art and anti-war art ideology based on humanity appeared at 「Dokuroto no hissya 」, carried over to Misei's anti-war drawing 「Sengo」, 「Horyo to sonoani」 which containing the cruelty and suffering of war on canvas.