Koda Rohan's major works

Koda Rohan (1867 ~ 1947) ranks in the literary world after the red leaves in Ozaki. His first novel is The Dew is Round (1889). The earliest serial work Time (1889) was published in the organ publication My Music Library of Rock Friends Society. The style of the work imitates the novel style of Ihara Xihe. Koda Rohan's masterpiece is Romantic Buddha (1889), published in the 5th issue of New Works. Subsequently, Lu Ban published a series of important works, which were welcomed by readers. Representative works include Five Pagodas (189 1 ~ 1892), Clouds in the Wind (1893), Sky Wave (1903) and Fate of Historical Biography Literature. Tian Xing also wrote the short story Dew is Round (1889), Clear Glass in the Street (189 1), the novel Whaler (189 1), and comments on One Country. The historical novel Destiny (15438) and Comments on Seven Episodes of Octagon (1926 ~ 1947) are his representative works.

Selected Prose of Koda Rohan

Koda Rohan's prose has diverse themes and flexible artistic expression. The articles included in this book include early essays, as well as some singles published later, such as Broken Grass and Tide Grass.

The content of this book:

Koda Rohan

Woniuan Zhabi

about

Nothing happened all day.

Couple's home of tea bowls

Hua Er Middle School

firefighting bucket

Double underground furnace

Ancient shallow grass

Plants forgotten by the world

All kinds of clouds

Comments/criticisms from others

nail

China traditional flower-and-bird painting

Metaphor of chestnuts

Send a message and smile

Jett

Tragic predicament

harm

don't worry

Man's posture

Tree stage

Pseudo-northern residence

There are poems in famous paintings.

language

shameful

Woman's letter

Snakes and women

dessert

ten thousand

way

honest

destiny

Reading attitude

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postscript

One day of a venerable old monk: Don't think that a beautiful girl who goes to a temple is better than an ordinary girl who goes to a temple. Artists, geisha, hooligans, clay merchants, etc. It is even more surprising who holds the incense sticks. A childless and helpless woman who has been enslaved by others for a long time said to me: I have been in a family where people come and go for a long time and I am used to the changing process of all kinds of people. Nowadays, whenever I see young men and women, I think to myself, is this person good or bad? What the hell were you thinking? The young man named Songshan went in and out, kicking other people's clogs every time and turning them over. He is really a scoundrel. But sometimes when I have some money in my pocket, I will immediately put on bright clothes and show off. If such people have money, they will leave their wives at home and have fun outside. If you are poor, you will go to your old lady several times to meet your new wife and betray your old friends for new friends. There is Meishan, who always carries clogs in person and puts them on one side of the boot field to prevent others from stepping on them. He wears casual clothes and never pays attention. This kind of person will not be aloof, nor will he cry. Although a little stingy, it is not unreasonable. There is also a man named Sakurayama, who changed a pair of clogs made of fancy ribbons into cheap ones, and when they are brand-new, they always take them off and put them neatly. When it is a little old, it just lies there. Although this person has no poison in his heart, he is an idle person in the world. It's really sad to be the wife of such a person. But this man also has some advantages, that is, he doesn't give up. As long as you are not instigated by the wicked, you will get better gradually in the end. Look at Li Shan. Has he ever bought anything with his own money? He always wears old clogs. The world proverb says: Facing the tide, the body floats. The nose of the urinal is twisted by itself, which is childish and ridiculous. Beam nose is broken, filled with pebbles, only the same, more childish and ridiculous. Look at the clogs he is wearing. He always laughs, but he buys a lot of books. Not only that, although his words are few, they are not impressive. His daily life is like Tian Shelang, but he often needs a lot of consideration. This man is bound to become famous and make a fortune without forgetting the past. what do you think? These are all things I wear to meet people. They are vulgar, but they are much more effective than divination. She said proudly.

On Women's Day, women in the past tried to show the beauty of their necks and pull out their hair. Nowadays, women want to show the beauty of their foreheads and draw with their heart, instead of focusing on the neck, that is, focusing on what everyone can see and forgetting what is not easy to see. The world has improved, but there are more and more people like monkeys.

A woman of humble origin and strong heart said: When taking the train, many people can't find seats, especially women. In the past, when a woman saw an unaccompanied young man, she would laugh and laugh and approach him with a painful face. That man usually gives you his seat. Now I'm in rags and unkempt, and I feel very humble. At this time, even if someone offered me a seat, I pretended not to know. From this, I think a woman with nothing should pay attention to her appearance and dress.

A sword

The general content of A Sword (also translated as Forging Knife): the knife maker gave up his studies and hid for love, his wife gave up her rich life, and they lived a poor life in the countryside. One day, while drinking, he boasted about his forging skills. Unexpectedly, this word reached the ears of Wang Ye, who entrusted him to build a treasure knife and rewarded him. When his wife and outsiders are happy for him, they are hiding but worrying. It turned out that he knew that he was incapable of building a treasure knife. But due to a mistake, I took the task. Refusing is a capital crime, and failing to build it is also a capital crime. Just when he was in a dilemma, his wife left him with the money paid in advance by the sovereign. When I was hiding in despair, I had to bite the bullet and forge a treasure knife. Three years later, the nod was finally made and appreciated by the sovereign.

At that time, I gave up my career for love, and my wife gave up her rich life. Although they are poor, they live a harmonious life. On the surface, the couple love each other. The author reveals his wife's real thoughts through a lot of psychological descriptions. In the end, her love could not compete with Jin Jian's poverty and the coming disaster, and her wife finally chose to leave her husband. Since they chose to live together in the country, especially their wife, she had anticipated the future poverty and resolutely chose to follow her husband. Maybe we should be deeply moved by this love, but this love is so limited that reality soon devours it, and it seems so insignificant at this time. Don't such things often happen in our present life? Who cares about the cruelty of real life when you are in love? Who would have thought that love is worthless and fragile? It has long been said that "the wife of dross should not be abandoned", and now it should be "why not abandon the husband of dross". It's ridiculous that those stupid women are short-sighted. Will ex-husbands regret it once they have money? Is love back? Want to remarry? At this time, maybe her ex-husband will say to her, "Thank you for leaving me, otherwise I have no motivation to achieve my career." Who dares to have such a woman?

Wuta

The protagonist of Five Towers is a skilled carpenter named Shi. Ten soldiers defended the sky with stunts. Because of his dull appearance and little knowledge of the world, his fortune has been poor. When he heard that the Induction Temple in the valley was going to build five pagodas, he chose Yuan Tai, a famous craftsman in Sichuan and Vietnam. He decided that this was a good opportunity to become famous in the world and decided to make a request to the abbot and contract the project himself. Yuan, a famous craftsman, was generous and immediately agreed to be his deputy. Ten soldiers who disagreed. Thai also put forward a more condescending plan, with himself as the deputy and ten soldiers as the mainstay. But ten soldiers still disagreed. Finally, Thai agreed to transfer all his works to Shi Bingwei, and proposed to teach his "secret biography" skills to Shi Bingwei. However, Shi still disagreed, so he hurt Shi in every way. Ten soldiers didn't give in, but he painstakingly built and finally built a 50-fold tower. The day before the inauguration ceremony, unfortunately, there was a big storm. Ten soldiers and guards firmly believed in their own strength and stood leisurely in the storm. He succeeded. After the storm, the five-story tower stood still. Through this unique conception, Koda Rohan showed a "freak" who ignored justice and human feelings. Obviously, these ten soldiers and guards are little people who are annoying to everyone, but they are skilled. He finally proved his existence value in his own way. In fact, Koda Rohan's Five Pagodas aimed to prove Fukuzawa Yukichi's independence and self-esteem, and tried to get rid of feudalism in the early Meiji period.

The "literary improvement" in the Meiji Restoration includes at least two major contents: Europeanization and the vernacular movement. However, this kind of literature or socialist ideological trend with universal characteristics has been opposed by nationalist literati such as Miyake Serrei and Shiga Chuangang. In the middle and late Meiji period, literary creation entered the so-called "red dew era", that is, the red leaves in Ozaki and Koda Rohan later became the protagonists in the literary world. The novels of Oriental Ozaki and Koda Rohan did not conform to the development trend of novels, but insisted on their own expressive characteristics in their creation. Their novels are called "compromise between elegance and popularity". In other words, the expression of elegant language in classical literature is mixed with the expression of popular literature after Edo. As a model, it is the novel style of Xihe Yiyuan in the Edo period. Because the improved novels of Hirauchi Xiaoyao and Yamada Miyuki are still in the primary stage, although they have been popular for some time, they have not left any excellent works in creation. Therefore, the literature based on solid traditional expression, such as Hongye and Luban, constitutes the important content of Meiji literature in the new period.

"Red dew literature" essentially embodies an anti-era trend of thought at that time. However, the creative features of Ozaki's Red Leaves have been mentioned before. In a word, his unique and gorgeous writing style is fully demonstrated in his representative works "Three Wives" and "Golden Hag". Among them, Three Wives is the highest achievement of Ozaki's novels. The novel focuses on the complicated personnel disputes between the protagonist Yu Wulang and his three concubines, and presents justice and human feelings in feudal family relations through the description of typed characters. Toyo Ozaki is familiar with all kinds of ethical customs in the world, so he constructed a series of realistic and humanized genre paintings in his detailed description of characters. Ozaki Zhang's novels conform to readers' public preferences and are unique in psychological description.

Koda Rohan liked reading when he was young. In Tokyo Library and Ju Chi Private School, he dabbled in all kinds of books about oriental culture and was exposed to all kinds of progressive enlightenment thoughts. From his father Cheng Yan, he was also influenced by the Christian faith. These experiences are all shown in the debut novel Dew. At the same time, at the beginning of creation, Koda Rohan was influenced by Pingnei Pu's theory of free and unfettered novels, and then fell in love with Yiyuan's novels. Although Koda Rohan's novels also imitate the novel style of Ihara Nishihiko, the theme, characters, content and style of his works are different from those of Ozaki.

Interestingly, the literary styles of Koda Rohan and Ozaki Hongye are in sharp contrast. Lu companion is called idealist, and Hongye is called custom realism. Koda Rohan's novel The World embodies the self-centered thought prevailing in the early Meiji period and is full of masculinity. On the contrary, the literary expression of red leaves is feminine. Lu Companion's literary evaluation is slightly higher than that of Hongye. On the other hand, the custom realism of red leaves is based on real experience or feeling; However, Lu Ban's works often have ideas first, which affects the appeal of his works to some extent.

Koda Rohan literature is characterized by romanticism. In other words, "Red Dew Literature" has been different from the previous "drama composition" and created unprecedented characters in its works. But on the other hand, these characters were restricted by various feudal remnants in the social culture at that time. Therefore, the emotional expression in his works always deviates from the positive modern spirit and fails to touch Futabatei Shimei's modern self-suffering. Almost at the same time, early romantic literature rose.