Hut”, 1212) by Kamo no Ch
ō
mei, a report of various
disasters such as earthquake,
famine, whirlwind and conflagration that occurred in the ancient capital city of Ky
ō
to.
Several works by Akutagawa Ry
ū
nosuke
(
芥川龍之介
, 1892-1927) and Terada
Torahiko (
寺田寅彦
, 1878-1935), just to name a few, are worth to mention too.
Finally, the
genbaku bungaku
原爆文学
(“literature of the atomic bombings”) makes
its appearance as a label used to described all the poetic and prosaic responses to the
double atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of which Ibuse Masuji’s
Kuroi
ame
『黒い雨』
(“Black Rain”, 1965) is the most well-known example: even if the
genbaku bungaku
genre refers
to a men-made catastrophe, it sets a precedent in the
Japanese literary production that deserves scholar’s attention.
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