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

Chapter 299: The Dancer (Part )
If we say that in "Tattoo", the moment the painting is completed, the ordinary girl completes the transformation into the "devil's daughter".

Then the moment when the hero and heroine part at the end of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" makes people sigh involuntarily.

A high school student encounters a touring artist group, mostly composed of family members.

Traveling together, we felt the kindness of these artists at the bottom of society during the journey from Shuzenji to Shimoda.

At the final farewell.
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Somehow, tears started rolling down my cheeks.
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Tears fell for no reason.

Sadness is the underlying tone of this article. One is a dancer wandering at the bottom of society, and the other is a student studying for university preparatory courses. It is difficult for the two to have any further developments, but the beauty revealed between the lines makes it difficult to extricate oneself.

"How is this going?"

Some people touched their faces unconsciously, and the scene in the picture seemed to be reflected on their faces.

"In my opinion, the aesthetic standards of mono no aware can be divided into five categories: the first is touching, the second is harmony, the third is beauty, the fourth is interest, and the fifth is sadness. The most prominent one is sadness."

Ryuukawa Toru seemed to have anticipated this kind of thing. After the words scrolled by like a movie, he touched the corners of her crystal eyes emotionally as if the story was ending.

Even those who were not very interested at first were very surprised and went up to look through the works of this man named "Yasunari Kawabata", while Toru Ryukawa continued to explain below.

"The journey is short, I use words to construct a simple dancer."

"I will shake the dust off my pants and put my slippers in order."

Longchuan Che pinched his wife who seemed a little sad.

"The 14-year-old dancer dressed as a young woman has the maturity, understanding and dignity of an adult, but in essence she is as innocent as a younger child, and does not understand the relationship between men and women."

"For example, when pouring tea for me, she would shyly knock over the tea bowl. When asking an uncle to read, she would immerse herself in the story with a serious expression, and would not even notice if someone touched her. It was the same when playing chess with me. Her devotion, playfulness and joy made me excited. She would run up and down while walking, panting until she was tired and picking a bamboo pole for me as a walking stick. When talking to me about the past, she would talk about all sorts of things and nothing at all..."

Longchuan Che pinched his chin.

"But all the beautiful things in the previous chapter have a sad background that there is no possibility for the two of them to be together."

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is like a short movie whose ending is known to everyone.

The short journey will eventually come to an end, students are still students and dancers are still only dancers.

Dancers are pure and beautiful, but one day they will be defiled.

"It's like a kind of sadness, loss and desolation that is imaginable and predictable, but is like a mystery that is hard to describe."

Ryuukawa Toru gave his explanation for the lament, but it was a bit cruel.

Tragedy is about tearing beautiful things apart for people to see.

The better the relationship between the two people was, the more vague the unspoken emotions became.

When the dancer waves the white handkerchief symbolizing her pure emotions, the aesthetic experience of "mono no aware" reaches its climax.

A man and a woman who can never meet again, and the dancer Kaoru who is called "that kind of person".

Someone once commented on "The Dancing Girl of Izu" as "very clearly inheriting the tradition of Heian period literature, which is elegant, delicate and feminine, and reflects inner sadness and grief through elegance and beauty."

And the response to Longchuan Tetsu's submission of this article was obviously good.

Several literary professors, including Kaga Yufu, walked towards the lady.

He nodded to his wife and motioned for her to go first.

The Tanizaki Junichiro Award itself is intended to select works with a classical literary temperament. In some ways, "The Dancing Girl" is more suitable for the award than "The Tattoo".

"Maybe he'll ask to see me. If so, find a way to help me decline the request."

Longchuan Che pulled the mask to cover his face.

Kaga Yufu and his friends are obviously very interested in the author "Kawabata Yasunari".

"Her ability is too poor. She is not qualified to be used as a 'tool'." The wife followed the people from the Writers Association, looking back every few steps. Ryukawa Toru stayed where he was, and Kujo Fujitaka beside him knocked on the handrail and said.

"Dancing Girl" can break through the siege with its own strength, but in Kujo Fujitaka's opinion, his wife is useless except for handing in a manuscript.

"I heard you were dying?"

The old man spoke disrespectfully, and Long Chuan Che did not respond. Instead, he asked other questions out of curiosity.

The old man was stunned. No one dared to say such words to his face.

"Yeah, dying."

The old man pulled his sleeves, revealing a section of his withered arm to Long Chuan Che.

His arms were old and covered with age spots and pinholes.

Looking at the direction where his wife left, Longchuan Che was silent.

He came to Tokyo not because he was afraid of something happening, as he had just told his wife.

"Dancing Girl" is a work that focuses on words and lyricism, and does not require analysis and introduction like "Tattoo".

In the final analysis, it is more like a romance novel. Kawabata Yasunari uses an alternative method to express the sad background of "mono no aware".

"Natsuko said you wanted me to return to the Kujo family more than anyone else."

Longchuan Che's words were a little curious. In fact, he came to Tokyo today more because of the old man in front of him.

In the morning he told Natsuko Imamura about his dream last night, and the girl looked at him deeply.

"I thought you, who was abandoned by the Kujo family, were actually the happiest one, but no one dared to talk to you about this before Grandpa died."

The ancient Kyoto seemed to be shrouded in a bit of mystery. Ryukawa Toru couldn't stand this state of wanting to say something but stopping, so he ran over after seeing the old man's name at the announcement conference of the Tanizaki Junichiro Award.

Kujo Fujitaka drove his daughter out of the house, but according to the eldest daughter's account, the old man loved his daughter very much.

"You really don't remember?"

The old man looked quite regretful and complained in the direction his wife left.

"The spirituality you cultivated in just thirteen years has been completely lost. Watching Xizi hand you over to this stupid woman is the thing I regret most in my life."

The other party seemed to look down on his wife, and Longchuan Che grinned at the seriously ill old man.

He didn't say anything, just stared at the old man, which made people's backs feel a little chilly and the old man frowned.

"If you want to know, then settle this trouble."

The old man straightened up and coughed twice.

"What begins with this group portrait appreciation is both a danger and an opportunity."

He seemed to be really dying.

After everyone left, he felt very hunched over.

But he still pointed to the center of the Yasuda Auditorium, a very eye-catching place.

"Whether it's in the literary world or in the political world."

The old man looked at Longchuan Che deeply.

"We can only have our own opinions."

(End of this chapter)