[7] Totellyouthetruth, ratherthanwithKawabatamycompatriotwhostoodheretwenty-sixyearsago, IfeelmorespiritualaffinitywiththeIrishpoetWilliamButlerYeats, , whoseworkYeatsrevaluedandrestoredtothehighplaceitholdsinthiscentury, oncewrote: “AcrossEuropeandAsiatoChinaandJapanlikelightning’s.”
[8] “acceptedintothecomityofnations” “insanityinenthusiasmofdestruction” bothonitsownsoilandonthatoftheneighboringnations.
[9] Assomeonelivinginthepresentwouldsuchasthisoneandsharingbittermemoriesofthepastimprintedonmymind, IcannotutterinunisonwithKawabatathephrase “Japan, theBeautifulandMyself”.AmomentagoItoucheduponthe “vagueness”ofthetitleandcontentofKawabata’ “ambiguous” inaccordancewiththedistinctionmadebytheeminentBritishpoetKathleenRaine; “Japan, theAmbiguous, andMyself ”.
[10] Myobservationisthatafteronehundredandtwentyyearsofmodernizationsincetheopeningofthecountry, .
[11] , thecultureofmodernJapan, , JapanwasdrivenintoisolationfromotherAsiancountries, notonlypoliticallybutalsosociallyandculturally.
[12] InthehistoryofmodernJapanliteraturethewritersmostsincereandawareoftheirmissionwerethose “post-warwriters” whocameontotheliterarysceneimmediatelyafterthelastWar, , .
[13] WhatIcallJapan’s “ambiguity” ’seconomicprosperityisnotfreefromiteither, “ambiguity” -wareconomicpovertywefoundaresiliencetoendureit, , , anewsituationnowseemstobearisinginwhichJapan’sprosperityisgoingtobeincorporatedintotheexpandingpotentialpowerofbothproductionandconsumptioninAsiaatlarge.
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