The Ritsumeikan Bungaku

Serial Number 698

A Special Issue
in Honour of
PROF. IKUYO HANAZAKI
on the Occasion of
Her Retirement

TREATISES
Akio KANEKO: Connecting Events and Fiction: Reflections on Historical Fiction
Tomofumi YOSHIMI: A Tentative Study of IZUMI Kyoka’s “GEKASHITSU”:
From the Perspective of the Reader’s Desire
Hiroyuki MATSUSHITA: Ishikawa Takuboku’s Representations of “Nostalgia” and “City”
— Focusing on His Tankas and “Romanji Nikki”
Chiaki ISHIHARA: Portrait of a Modern Intellectual
— A Critical Study of Kojin by Natsume Soseki —
Kensuke KONO: Narratives Cover the World：The “Plot of a Novel” Debate and Nakazato Kaizan’s
“Daibosatsu Tōge”
Yoshiki HIDAKA: Lies and Madness: The Fictionality of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Hakuchukigo
Chisato SUDA: Religion and Logic in Mori Ōgai’s Hánshān and Shídé（寒山拾得）
Yoriko KUME: Yoshiya Nobuko’s “Burning Flowers” and “Roses in the Rainstorm” with
Yanagihara Byakuren and Muraoka Hanako
Madoka HORI: The American Life of Sokei-an’s Wife, Tome Sasaki :
A Study of Her Writings in the Magazine Fujinkai in 1918
Keigo IKEDA: Long-ago Records and Blue Beads:
A Study of Chūjō [Miyamoto] Yuriko’s “The Insect Nest of Tsugaru”
Hajime SEKI: The Formation of the Hōchi Shinbun Literary and Arts Section
Yoshitada NAITOU: The Radiance and Shadow of the Clarté Movement: Nationalism and
Literary Theory in the Magazine ‘Tanemakuhito’
Nami KITO: What Shapes Takeo Kato’s Kuon-no-zo (Image of Eternity)
— Dante, Chopin and Koji Fukiya —
Azusa SASAKI: A Study of Hideo Kobayashi’s Novel ‘Ami’ —The Disjunction with the ‘Other’
Brought into Presence—
Takehiko OHASHI: What the Letters from Kusano Shinpei and Genri Michio to Sakamoto
Ryo Reveal — The Publication of the Poetry Collection Tanpopo and Its Surroundings—
Atsuko NISHIKAWA: Romance in Yumeno Kyūsaku “Shigon-no-koi”
—On the Existence of “I”
Daisuke MATSUBARA: A Study of Uchida Hyakken’s “Kage”:
Deviations from the “Cutting Edge” of Bungaku Jidai
Maiko ODAIRA: Gender of Realism: On “Nyonin aishi” Starring Yamamoto Yasue of the
Shintsukiji Theater Company
Ruri YAHARA: A Study of Yokomitsu Riichi’s “Muchi (Whip)”:
Psychology Shaped by “Custom”
Mami WATANABE: Tatsuo Hori and Shusaku Endo’s Library Collections, and
François Mauriac’s The Knot of Vipers: Text in the “Place of Reading”
Hideaki SATO: A Study on Savings: Regarding the Novels of Sakunosuke Oda
Masao SAITO: Oda Sakunosuke’s Drafts for Dobutsu-shu (Animal Collection)
Junko MIYAUCHI: Jun Ishikawa’s Otoshibanasi and Kibyōshi
Miho SUZUKI: The 1951 Matisse Exhibition and Literary Writers:
From the Perspective of Newspapers
Naomi TANIGAWA: Ooka Shohei’s Jochu no ko: Analysis Focusing on
“Irritation” that “I” Feels
Emiko TAKEUCHI: Why did Yoshie Hotta Write “The Sphinx”? :In Relation to the
Afro-Asian Writers’ Association
Makiko YAMASAKI: A Brief Essay on Haruki Murakami’s “Fireflies”
— The Lyrical Quality of the Fireflies’ Faint Light —
Yoshitaka HIBI: Reading Natsume Sōseki’s Long Novels through TEI Markup
Abstracts

March 2026

Edited by
The Literary Association of Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan