This paper focuses on Taisō shishū (Poems on physical exercise), a collection of modernist poetry published in 1939 by Murano Shirō (1901–1975). This collection contains nineteen poems on the subject of athletes performing different sports and has been discussed often in connection with Murano’s fascination with German New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), a movement that he had actively made known in Japan in the previous years. Murano’s poems stand in a complex intertextual relationship with visual texts, such as Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary Olympia and Paul Wolff ’s photographs of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and also reflect his interest in the philosophical investigation of the modes of human existence. The specificity of this collection resides in an original interplay between New Objectivity, sports, photography, and existential reflection. In this paper, I explore the ambiguities of this collection’s poetics and examine its historical significance in the context of interwar Japan.
雑誌名
Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies
巻
35
ページ
165 - 197
発行年
2021-03
ISSN
09150986
24343129
書誌レコードID
AA10759175
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application/pdf
著者版フラグ
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出版者
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Between New Objectivity and Existential Reflection: Reading Murano Shirō’s Taisō shishū
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