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A Study on “Bangiku” by Fumiko Hayash - A Representation of the Aging and the Defeat of the War - Lee, Sang-Bok This study examines “Bangiku”, which begins with its heroine; Ms. Kin Aizawa received a phonecall from the separated Mr. Tabe. When they met for the first time Kin was 50 years old and Tabe was a college student. Kin still remembered that they overcame the huge generation gap and passionately loved each other. Later, Mr Tabe married other woman and they broke up then. This story starts when they met again a year after the separation. Kin wanted to show herself younger than the year before. Because she thought it is a defeat if she looked older. However, she was disappointed because Tabe came to beg her money. She wanted to eject him from the place when she saw him attempting to take money from her but she hid herself. Tabe also wanted to kill Kin because she did not answer his request but he behaved himself and acted as he still loved her. Kin got a Hormone injection in order to hide the tired feelings from aging. She still believed that she is able to commit love affairs. Tabe compared between her and her maid, Kinu. When she realized that she is aging in comparison to Kinu’s glossy youthfulness. When she was young she was a Geisha and she was certainly positive about her looking. Now she recognized her age and was less attractive than her maid. This literary work contrasts between Kin who realized the seriousness of her age by Tabe’s revisit and Tabe, who believed his life had been completely destroyed by the war. It draws the painful lives with people’s mental environment after the war.