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Zenzo Kasai himself has confessed, “I have only written works that are like self-portraits. I could not let myself to write anything else.” Kasai is a representative modern “I novel” author who has drawn out his life experiences and portrayed the heart of in his works. In the past, Kasai has been criticized as an advocate of aestheticism or an author who has ignored common sense and moral because of his belief, “Broken lives, broken mankind, that is where my art originates,” and his attitude that he will “sacrifice himself and anything around him for the sake of literature.” However, as a person, he is a supporter of tradition and family and can be considered a tragic writer who, more than anyone, yearned for a loving family but could not carry out a life as a family man. The pain, grief, despair and hopelessness in his personal life are what produced Kasai literature. In other words, Kasai’s personal and literature lives both began with and ended with . In Kasai’s works, the general theme is comprised of family relationships such as , , , as well as his life in which he suffered from . This article tries to discover a new aspect of Kasai literature by analyzing the meaning of family in Kasai’s life, especially in the married life with his wife Tsuru.