Chinese Complex Of Inoue Yasushi In His Historical Novels Of Chinese Theme

In the early 1960s, Chinese scholars had started to translate Inoue Yasushi's literary works; in the middle 1980s, the translation and research of his works achieved its peak. Chinese scholars have researched Inoue Yasushi and his works on various aspects, including the introduction of his life and works, the review of his thought's tendency, the study of his composing art, but most of their efforts are to explain his every single work. This article is trying to analyze his novels of Chinese theme as a whole connecting them by one clew, so as to explain his Chinese complex. Inoue Yasushi had been edified by the classical culture of China from his youth, he had great interest in China and Chinese culture, and composed many historical novels, poetry and informal essays, whose themes are China. Moreover, he also visited China for many times, and had made quite a great contribution for the friendly communication between Chinese and Japanese. This dissertation discusses Inoue Yasushi's Chinese complex on the foundation of Chinese scholars'research on his literary works, these discussions must certainly draw support to analyzing his novels of Chinese theme. This dissertation mainly unfurls the research by four aspects. First, it shall give an introduction to the special growing experience of Inoue Yasushi, as well as his special sentiment on Chinese culture because of Chinese cultural edification since his youth, this also became the root of his creating many novels of Chinese theme. The second part of this dissertation is about his "Hsi-yüDream". It is his strong interest even infatuation in Hsi-yüthat his "Hsi-yüDream" has been translated into novels about Hsi-yü. Thirdly, it discourses upon how his saga novels, Tenpyounoiraka and Tonkou, are composed. Finally, based on analyzing Inoue Yasushi's last saga novel, Koushi, it clarifies his idea on Confucianism, and his image of China——gentle, peaceful. Confucius, the herald of peace in ancient China, becomes the avatar of Inoue Yasushi. Inoue Yasushi calls on the World Peace by dint of Confucius.