Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 169: Pretending to be the real boss
"Young people nowadays like to brag about their works, thinking they can be proud of their talents."

Ichiro Obi was arrogant with a melancholy expression on his face.

“You may not know that there are always people better than you, and there are always people better than you.”

Young people become arrogant after writing some works.

Longchuan Che felt that the other party might be talking about him, so he looked up at him.

"Don't get me wrong, Longchuan, I'm not talking about you."

Seeing the other person looking at him, Ichiro Obi, who was wearing a kimono, smiled.

He pointed to the haiku magazine in his companion's hand and said, "I mean this person."

Aishi and Dassai-yashu have been highly praised in the literary world recently, and "Essentials of Haiku" has also enabled many people to create more haiku poems using the sketching method. Ryukawa Toru doesn't understand why the other party said that.

"He made a big statement that modern people are not necessarily inferior to ancient people, and filled haiku with a lot of nonsense, thinking that he could create a new literary genre. Don't you think he has no idea of ​​his own limitations?"

Ichiro Obi looked at Ryukawa Toru with a smile. Ryukawa Toru's eyelids twitched, and he was still talking about him after a long time.

It has become a fact that Ryukawa Toru's "Snow Country" is called a new genre. Even many authors who submitted their works this time chose the "new sensationalism" writing style because they knew he was a judge.

We pursue the beauty of culture, emphasize the supremacy of art, and do not add too many things to our works.

Although many works seem too immature to Toru Ryukawa, with the increasing number of copies of "Snow Country", a thin layer of snowflakes has already covered the book.

The other party seemed to be talking about the owner of Dassai, but in fact he was using the matter of the new haiku to point out Ryukawa Toru.

The Lord of Dassai-ya wants to bypass Matsuo Basho to prolong the life of haiku, and Ryukawa Toru wants to create new literature in front of the monk Kohei. Oo Ichiro indirectly criticizes Ryukawa Toru, saying that he does not know his own limitations.

The steamed bun noodles were delicious and chewy. Longchuan Che took two bites of the noodles and drank up the soup.

"Has Xiaowei ever written a new haiku?"

Ryukawa Toru addressed the other person by his job title at Kodansha, and did not use the literary term "teacher" or "sir".

"New Haiku?"

Oobi Ichiro was stunned. He didn't know whether Ryukawa Toru didn't realize that he was talking about him or was pretending not to know.

A cultured person will never break up with someone no matter how much he dislikes him. He deliberately made indirect accusations against Longchuan Tetsu to tell him that he is his senior and he should respect him and follow the rules.

I invited you here, but you're already eating with a snort before the meal even arrives.

Is this true?

Ichiro Oobi had already forgotten that he was planning to join others in excluding the works selected by Toru Ryukawa yesterday. Perhaps in his opinion, a junior like Toru Ryukawa should not eat at the same table with him.

I asked you to come here to help you, but you are not grateful and have no tact at all.

Ichiro Oobi glanced at Editor-in-Chief Takeda behind the other person.

Tall, beautiful, with a delicate face.

Much better than the woman in the pub last night.

"I wrote one or two poems out of boredom."

Obi Ichiro coughed and said.

It is easy to create a new haiku and there is a lot of content to write about, so there is no writer who would not be tempted to do so.

Matsuo Basho's Basho style is too artistic, and the content is also serious and Zen-like. Many people cannot reach his level of creation, but the sketching method...

"The train passed by -- / the smoke swirled / among the new leaves"

The house with new green leaves, the house with new green leaves, the house with new green leaves...

After saying this, Ichiro Obi looked at Toru Ryukawa with some pride on his face. Natsuko Imamura behind him also looked at the bald middle-aged man with some surprise when she heard it.

It is a fact that the other party has not produced any good works in recent years. I did not expect that the haiku written in the sketching method is quite good. The sketching method is that countless natural or human phenomena around us can become the subject of poetry, which injects new vitality into the haiku that is about to die. In Masaoka Shiki's work, he is not bound by the traditional seasonal theme routine, and injects the new elements and new wine of the present and the surrounding life into the old bottle, thus giving birth to a "new" haiku.

This haiku by Ichiro Oo uses the concept of "copying" in today's computer age, boldly remaking the entire "家あつて若葉" (pronounced ie atte wakaba: a house with new green leaves) and pasting it, showing the graceful movement of a train/two carriages running past one house after another with lush green leaves. It can be regarded as a good haiku.

"Small tail review,"

Facing the smug look on Obi Ichiro's face, Ryukawa Toru, who had just finished his meal, wiped his mouth with a tissue.

"What does Pai Sheng or Old Monk Hong Ping mean to you?"

The young man spoke in a casual tone, and Obi Ichiro was stunned when he heard him call Hongping "old monk".

"How dare you! Teacher Gong Cheng is highly respected. How can you be so disrespectful to your elders?"

Since you are a person who pays attention to the concept of seniority and inferiority, you should set an example while enjoying the respect of your juniors.

Regardless of whether he meant it from the bottom of his heart, Ryukawa Toru's contempt for Monk Hongping made Oobi Ichiro excited and angry.

"take it easy."

Ryukawa Tetsu looked around. Seeing the judges so angry made many people around him look over, including the joking Takeda Maki.

The woman had a bad look on her face, as if to say, "Oh, you've shot yourself in the foot."

"Don't get excited, just chat, just talk briefly."

Ryukawa Toru ignored the woman who had been acting crazy recently and looked at Oobi Ichiro calmly.

"Huh, I don't know how high the sky is."

Oobi Ichiro waved his hand and sat down again.

For people in the literary world today, both Matsuo Basho and Hirohei Kōbō are figures that they look up to.

Matsuo Basho brought haiku into the literary world, and the monk Kohei was even more amazing.

"To protect the country and its people, under the leadership of Teacher Gong Cheng, the voices of the scholars are getting louder and louder, and their influence on society is getting stronger and stronger."

Ooichiro's face showed obvious respect.

"It can be said that Mr. Gong Cheng has made a great contribution to the improvement of the status of modern scholars."

He put forward lofty ideas and brought the intellectuals together.

With his extremely high social status influencing the country and the government, it is not an exaggeration to call Monk Hongping a "dictator" in the literary world.

"So does it have anything to do with you frustrated intellectuals?"

He can no longer write good literary works and can only make a living by relying on his seniority. Long Chuan Che folded his hands and looked at the middle-aged man who said he wanted to exclude him last night but whose face was full of envy.

“A beauty in her old age fears the mirror, and a hero in his old age dares not touch the sword.

For writers, the most frustrating thing is to pick up a pen and find that you can’t write the same work as before.”

Longchuan Che patted the other person's shoulder.

"You said I don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is, and I should respect my elders?"

In Oo Ichiro's pupils, Ryukawa Toru's brows were furrowed, and there was an aura that could make a scholar tremble all over.

"Without me, without Zigui, you guys are just..."

It is thanks to the New Haiku that Ichirō Oo was able to write works that are eye-opening, and it is thanks to the "New Sensationalism" that Kodansha received more submissions this year than in previous years.

Ryukawa Toru looked at Ichiro Obi, who was still unaware of the situation, with contempt and said the words he was most afraid of hearing from others.

(End of this chapter)