earticle

영어

This is the study to prove the coexistence of ancient Japanese idea and traditional western idea for love in the literature of his life through the comparative method.
To begin with we compared the some novels and poems of Tokoku which has been written in the end of Tokoku with Song MANYO, which is Japanese ancient love songs. And we could find common meaning for love between Song MANYO and Tokoku's novels and poems.
In a word these love means to long for the object of his (or her) lover and unite with her (or his) soul. So to love means to long for the other sex and to call the soul and to unite with it spiritually. It does not mean real meeting of man and woman. Because love is spiritual thing in ones mind in these literary. There for We can say that the idea for love in the novels and poems in the end of Tokoku comes from ancient Japanese thought.
And secondly we compared the drama HORAI which was written by Tokoku in his early day with FAUST and DIVINA COMMEDIA, western traditional drama. Then we could also find the same meaning of love. In this case love between man and woman is the sweet delusion which is made by Satan. Namely Satan makes sweet emotion between man and woman and make then dream. But Satan makes them fall finally.
It is true that drama HORAI has mixed ideas of east and west. So it is not easy to understand each concept in each word clearly. But it is plain that the concept of love is used here as the delusion which is made by Satan.
Now we can see that there are two ideas for love between man and woman in the literary of Tokoku. Namely that is traditional western Christian thought and ancient Japanese thought.