| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 日本語文學系 === 98 === The study aims to examine how the Kenji Miyazawa's critical consciousness presents in his tale works. Regarding the tale works as discussing scope, this study focuses on the author’s critical viewpoints in terms the outside world (ex. politics, education…), human’s internal world (ex. greed, envy…), and Kenji’s himself.
The first chapter is associated with the connotation and feature characteristic of Kenji’s critical consciousness. Akaitori, which is the most important children’s magazine in The Taishō period, is also mentioned in this chapter. This study compares Kenji’s tale works to the works in Akitori, pointing out the differences between them. On the other hand, this chapter also discusses Kenji’s extended innermost pressure from his father. It is a well-known fact that there are many critical viewpoints in Kenji’s tale works connected with his father’s bourgeois dignity. Therefore, Kenji’s non-mainstream writings and the mixed feelings (love and resistance) toward this father result in Kenji’s multiple points of views in his critical thinking. The conclusion of the first chapter is that Kenji’s critical consciousness not only encourages the good behavior but also judges the bad one. Moreover, Kenji keeps the deep concern about his times as well as the heartfelt commiserating with people, especially with the weakness of human nature.
From the second to the fourth chapter, the text of Kenji’s tale works is analyzed. Meanwhile, according to respective object, Miyazawa's critical consciousness is discussed. The human/humanity is the center of discussing objects, and both external and internal aspects are included. The external objects refer to Japan’s modernization, education, capitalism and the war. The internal objects are the weakness and darkness of humanity, including greed, arrogance, envy and hypocrisy and so on.
In the final chapter, the critical object comes to Kenji Miyazawa himself. Many main characters in Kenji’s works bearing the innate misery on their shoulders. In other words, all those main characters are born of sin and bitterness. This final chapter attempts to find out the inevitable misery or sin of Kenji. Besides, although Kenji loves his land and the farming people deeply through his whole life, the peasantry education movement led by him still fails. Kenji’s bourgeois background and his intellectual status become the deepest gap between himself and his people. That is the painful regret Kenji Miyazawa holds until his death.
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