A Comparative Study of Religious Aspects of Modern Japanese Literature and Transcendental Philosophy of American Nineteenth Literature with Special Attention to Gender

上一个财政年度，我利用研究补助的旅费，访问了美国纽约州，收集了许多资料，特别是与赫尔曼·梅尔维尔有关的土地和建筑物的照片。今年我去了法属波利尼西亚，追寻他的足迹。这些都是重要的资料，为京都的出版社计划于2008年出版的赫尔曼梅尔维尔相关书籍提供了重要的资料。关于以宗教为中心的日本现代文学研究，我编辑出版了一本关于日本现代小说家、故事作家小岛信夫的书。这本书是我大约二十年前第一次出版的修订版。小岛的文学世界是日本人从佛教到基督教的宗教意识的象征。近代日本的其他一些文人也在基督教的基础上关注西方文化和文学。他们无一例外不喜欢日本的自然主义文学。然而，日本的自然主义是建立在一种传统的佛教思维方式之上的。见德田秀成，明治和大正时代的小说家和故事作家。小岛也是德田和夏目漱石的奇怪弟子。日本文人不喜欢夏目漱石和德田，却喜欢西方古典音乐和法国象征主义文学。没有人知道为什么音乐和象征主义在themo中联系在一起，但基督教和反基督教之间的紧张关系必须是原因的关键。

Last fiscal year, making use of the traveling expenses of the research subsidy, I visited New York State, U.S.A and collected many data, especially, photographs of the land and the buildings which are associated with Herman Melville. This year I visited the French Polynesia and chased his footprints. These are to be important material for publication of a planned book concerning Herman Melville, which will come 2008 from a publisher in Kyoto.With regard to research of modern Japanese literature with special attention to its religious characteristics, I have compiled and published a book concerning Nobuo Kojima, a novelist and story writer of contemporary Japan. This book is a revised edition of my first publication about twenty years ago. Kojima' s literary world is symbolic of Japanese people' s sense of religion from Buddhism through Christianity. Some other men of letters of modern Japan have been concerned with occidental culture and literature based on Christianity. They are not fond of Japanese naturalistic literature without any exception. Japanese naturalism, however, was based on a kind of traditional way of Buddhist thinking. See Tokuda Shuusei, a novelist and story writer of Meiji and Taishou era. Kojima is a strange disciple of Tokuda and Natume Soseki as well. Japanese men of letters who dislike Natume and Tokuda are fond of occidental classical music and French symbolist literature. Nobody knows why music and symbolism are connected within themo But tension between Christianity and anti-Christianity must be a key to the reason.