일본 현대 여성시 속의 성(性)

Abstract

Through the postwar poetry of the 1950s and 1960s, many sex-related psalms appeared in Japanese women’s poetry since the 1970s. Behind that, it may not be denied that the improvement of women’s social position in the course of post-war democratization acted as a motivation to overcome biological gender discrimination and describe a free spirit in language. The periodical message of women’s liberation provided women poets with an opportunity to concentrate on self-directed sex expression, and as the time passed by, it connected to the bold and free expression of body and recognition of sexuality. Kora Rumiko, Shiraishi Kazuko and other poets before who were mention in this manuscript and then such as Isaka Yoko and Ito Hiromi in the 1970s and 1980s were representative poets. Their works consistently show independent recognition about femininity although there are individual differences in the use of depth of sensuality or sexual vocabulary. What is important is that their works do not fall into the narrow pleasures of Eros, but rather lay stress on the value and meaning of true sexual expression. It has great value in that they saw sexuality as pure human emotion, and furthermore as the essence of life, and focused all a linguistic sense on the artistic completion.