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Hayashi Fumiko: The Writer and Her Works
No full textThis thesis is a broad-based study of the modern Japanese novelist, Hayashi Fumiko. It is meant to provide the student of modern Japanese literature with an introduction to this popular writer and her works. While some of Fumiko\u27s most famous works are discussed, attention is also given to a number of works which have heretofore not been discussed in Western literary discourse. The first chapter is a biographical sketch of the author\u27s life. The second chapter is a survey of Fumiko\u27s writing which identifies a number of prominent aspects in her work, including the importance of free will, her fear of ideology, vagueness of objectives and terminology, escapism, women\u27s issues, the influence of Yokomitsu Riichi and Tokuda Shusei, and olfactory imagery. The third chapter discusses her first novel, Horoki, as well as her early short stories Seihin no sho, Shoku, Mimiwa no tsuita uma, and Fukin to uo no machi, and examines how Fumiko\u27s faith in free will instills these works about poverty with a positive sense of life. Fumiko\u27s tentative connection to political leftist movements is also discussed. Chapter 4 examines Fumiko\u27s travel writing--both travel-related fiction and travelogues from abroad--and identifies the element of loneliness as the literary catalyst in these works. Chapter 5 discusses Fumiko\u27s fiction on the subject of marriage and illegitimacy, including the novels Inazuma, Kawa uta, Ame, and Jokazoku, and how these works display a pronounced concern with man\u27s exercise of his freedom of choice as an extension of his free will. The final chapter covers Fumiko\u27s post-war works, including the novel Ukigumo and the short stories Fubuki, Nagusame, and Yoru no komorigasa, which exhibit the author\u27s turn towards fatalism and determinism in her later years. Complete English translations of the essays Watashi no chiheisen, Bungaku, tabi, sono ta, and Watashi no shigoto are provided in the appendices
Letters from Jokichi and Fumiko Yamanaka to Mr. S. Okine, July, 1947
No full textContains two Japanese letters, one English letter, and one envelope. All three letters are enclosed in the envelope and mailed from Hiroshima, Japan. Letters are written by Jokichi Yamanaka and Fumiko Yamanaka, addressing their relatives, Seiichi Okine and Makoto Okine.The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines
Hayashi Fumiko and her novel Ukigumo
No full textThe objectvive of this work is to analyze one of the most remarkable works of modern japanese woman writer Hayashi Fumiko, classify this work in the context of modern japanese literature and observe the evolution of her style in time. It is necessary to assess this work with a respekt to her life, because the author has made this a major source of her inspiration
Letter from Sara A. Brown, Assistant Counselor, Public Welfare Section, June 7, 1945
No full textA recommendation letter for Fumiko Saito written by her supervisor at the Granada camp
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