Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature

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abyss, 5, 22, 24, 90, 96, 152 Akasaka Norio, 186 Akutagawa Prize, 162, 254n. 36 alienation, 6, 10, 21, 24, 33, 174 allegory: in “Kizashi,” 86–87; in “Yume no naka de no nichijō,” 70 Amami Ōshima, 100, 116, 163, 164, 165, 166, 169, 195; bushidō and, 47; dialect, 48, 50; division of labor in, 265n. 29; island mythology, 26; and Meiji Restoration, 174, 176; and Miho’s position, 152–159, 160, 161; names, 170–171; political control of, 47; poverty of, 177, 188; in Shi no toge, 154, 262n. 85; in “Sōsaiki,” 206, 215, 219, 221 Amida Buddha, 196 apocalypse, 19–20, 65–66 atomic bombings, 18–19, 21, 22, 29 Bakin (Takizawa Bakin), 165 bathing (communal), 81–82, 196–197, 210–211, 218 body: and anticipation of death, 22; Miho ’s in Shi no toge, 137–139; and Yaponesia essays, 177–178 Buddhism, 165, 178, 196 bundan (literary establishment), 71, 188 burakumin (outcastes), 184 bushidō (samurai code), 8, 34, 117, 236n. 6; and Amami, 47; and death, 45–46 byōinki (stories of a hospital stay), 103– 121, 154, 155, 212, 233, 234; language in 108; Miho’s attacks, 109–111; publication history, 250n. 3; plot summaries , 103–104; victimization, 111– 113; war experiences in, 108, 115–116 byōsaimono (stories of a sick wife), 4, 5, 81, 190, 210, 216; elements which make up, 98; definition of, 100, 216, 251n.4. See also byōinki; Shi no toge castration, symbolic, 93 Chesler, Phyllis, 134, 141 Chinese characters, 59; and Amami names, 170; and Shi no toge, 257n.47 Christianity, 107; Hi no utsuroi, 218; in “Matenrō,” 61; Old Testament wrath, 64; in “Shima no hate,” 39; Shi no toge and, 150–151, 158 Christy, Alan, 175, 268n. 65 Civil Code, 135 confession, 133–134 Confucianism, 178 Cuban Missile Crisis, 20 Daisan no shinjin (Third group of new writers): accomplishments, 52; and domestic drama, 91; members, 1 Danryū bungakuron (Theory of male literature ), 192–194 death: and the body, 22; bushidō ethic of, 45; in byōinki, 116–117, 121; “glori281 Index ous death” in wartime, 20; as escape, 32; fear of, 53, 189–190; in “Kawa ni te,” 197; and mainland ethos, 10, 46; psychology of tokkōtai, 23–24; and silence , 145 doppelgänger, 63, 66–67, 91, 95 dreams, 98; in byōinki, 114–115, 117– 119; dream stories, 51–79, 242nn. 1, 2; as framing device, 248n. 91; in Hi no utsuroi, 216–218; in Shi no toge, 28, 138–140, 147–149, 151–152, 158; and symbolic structures, 245n. 36; waking from, 92. See also unconscious, the ECT. See electroshock electroshock (ECT), 103, 140, 142–144, 230, 259n. 70 emperor 1, 25, 46, 182, 193. See also Imperial Proclamation of Surrender Endō Shūsaku, 52; Umi to dokuyaku (Sea and Poison), 57 fairy tales, 33 family, 94; desire to escape, 96–97; inequalities in, 127 folk dances, 36, 167–168, 178 Freud, 73 Fujii Reiichi, 201, 264n. 9 fūsō (exposure of bones), 157 Genzai no kai, 88 Gessel, Van, 1, 128 gyokusai (wartime suicide), 26 Haniya Yutaka, 65, 102 Harvey, David, 2 Hiroshima, 18, 29, 63 hossa (attacks, fits), 124, 132, 133 humor, 21; and characters’ names, 248n. 92; in “Sekizō arukidasu,” 68–69; in Shi no toge, 134, 258n. 57 Ibuse Masuji: Kuroi Ame (Black Rain), 17, 25; “Lieutenant Lookeast,” 25 Ichi Ni Kai, 88 Ichioku tokkō (one-hundred million as tokkōtai), 26, 236n.4 ideology, 25, 77 ie (extended family), 135 Ienaga Saburō, 9 ikimaburi (spirits), 47, 97, 156 Imperial Proclamation of Surrender, 16, 25, 29, 47 incongruity. See iwakan I novel, 2, 4, 5, 90, 91, 92, 105, 120, 242n. 2, 256n. 44; Shi no toge as, 126– 127, 148 island(s). See Amami; island stories; margins; Nantō; Nantō-ron; Okinawa; Yaponesia island stories, 194–213 iwakan (incongruity),19, 158, 160, 161, 188, 189, 190, 193, 195, 202, 207 Iwaya Seisho, 27 jōkyō (move to the capital), 187 Jōmon, 181 Kafka, Franz, 52–53; “The Trial,” 52; “The Judgment,” 52; similarities to “Yume no naka de no nichijō,” 53 Kaga Otohiko, 102 Kagoshima, 152, 219, 220 Kakeromajima, 3, 26, 45, 100 kamikaze, 3, 7, 236n. 1. See also tokkōtai Kamikaze (Kuwahara and Allred), 8 Karatani Kōjin, 150; and byōinki; 114– 115; evaluation of Shimao’s work, 6; sense of humor and the absurd in Shimao, 21 katarite (reciter), 230 katei no jijō (“domestic exigencies”), 258n. 57 Kawamitsu Shin’ichi, 185...