풍경과 내면 -일본의 고전과『초속 5센티미터』-

Abstract

This article is to clarify that Director Shinkai Makoto’s animation 5 Centimeters per Second and Japanese classic, especially Genjimonogatari(源氏物語) are similar in the expression method and theme. First, we studied the landscape and inner description in Genjimonogatari, and not the background but the nature of this work projects the characters’ feelings and has the features to lead Monogatari. But thus the method where nature is described by the projection of human feelings is not only characteristic of Genjimonogatari but it is revealed also in the personality of Waka clarified in the Preface of Kokinshu(古今集). That is, Monogatari was constituted based on the tradition of Waka’s expressive technique, and the nature which Waka has, commands a unique expressive technique representing the feelings and forms a unique time and space. And the nature formed by Waka’s expressive technique provides a certain image to the readers with the highly ideated world, while in Director Shikai’ 5 Centimeters per Second the homogenized daily landscape grants the same image to the audience, so both are very similar in this respect. That is, both are face to face in the world of pursuit in that they suggest the landscape where every body ventilates to the readers and the audience and describe inner changes. And we clarified that the theme of Genjimonogatari portraying yearning and loss is connected to the world which Director Shinkai’s works pursue and it is portrayed as an easily changing natural object like cloud.