Just when Lin Yi was looking at other people's thoughts, he heard a Japanese old man next to him say: "Young man, don't be stunned--- if you don't buy it, there are still many people waiting in line to buy it." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Lin Yi couldn't help but blush a little.

It seems that the Japanese have a high sense of time and efficiency, and they are a little uncomfortable.

Lin Yi hurriedly shifted his goal and began to buy some of his favorite books. As in China, big bookstores will more or less have some beautiful picture books that are super expensive.

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--- among the rocks beneath the vast blue waves, a huge pink octopus enveloped a naked beauty. The octopus's curvy tentacles slid across the woman's flawless body, gently touching her breasts, others wrapping around the graceful legs. She was enchanted and slumped in the mollusk's arms, her neck tilting back as the octopus waited for an opportunity to kiss her seductive red lips softly – one of the most debauched scenes in the history of art.

In the eyes of modern people, it may seem like a filthy and sultry scene, but in fact, it is one of the great artistic achievements of ancient Japan. The full title of this woodblock print is "The Dream of a Fisherman's Wife", and it was created in 1814 by the famous Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai, and this type of painting is known as "spring painting", a complex art form that flourished in Japan between 1600 and 1900.

In addition to this world-famous work, there is also the famous "Surfing in Kanagawa", which shows people a shocking wave that is enough to swallow the top of Mount Fuji.

Katsushika Hokusai lived in Japan's Edo period, and his style was flexible, and the painting "The Dream of a Fisherwoman" is based on an ancient legend. Legend has it that a woman once infiltrated the Dragon Palace and stole the Dragon King's treasures, and Katsushika Hokusai used paintings to depict this scene.

If you don't know much about Japanese spring paintings, you will be stunned at first sight, but in fact, such paintings are very common in Japan, especially during the Edo period in Japan, where Katsushika Hokusai lived.

Of course, many of the scenes in the spring paintings seem absurd, because they are mixed with more imaginative elements.

When appreciating spring paintings, the first thing to do is to abandon the critical viewpoint, after all, this kind of sexual art is also widespread in Western Christian culture. Although printing spring paintings was illegal in Japan at the time, in practice people still maintained a tolerant attitude towards it. Over the course of three centuries, thousands of spring paintings in different forms have been painted, and they have appeared in various forms, such as comic books, photo albums, hand scrolls, and some people even gave them as wedding gifts; Others are printed on the packaging of the goods, and the goods flow into thousands of households.

Spring paintings often depict scenes of beauty or amusement, and rarely depict scenes of violence and exploitation. Most of the spring paintings often directly depict scenes of male and female love, and these works can be described as "elegant and vulgar for all ages", and everyone from samurai merchants to common people, from palace nobles to wrestler porters, such works are happy to appreciate. Because for the Japanese, it is never a sin to depict and portray the joy of fish and water.

Of course, a beautiful album like this costs a lot of money, almost 2,000 yuan, a total of more than 30,000 yen. Although Lin Yi liked it, he put it down, and a Japanese man next to him who seemed to be engaged in art picked it up again, and seemed to mutter, "It should be able to be half discounted, if you can, buy it." ”

Lin Yi then remembered that all the old books today seemed to be discounted, and he was so distracted that he forgot about this and fainted. I wanted to look for it again, but there was only that one in the album.

Helpless, Lin Yi had no choice but to go back and look at other albums, but unfortunately, none of them were as exquisite as the one he had just seen, so he could only choose two or three from them and talk about comfort.

Turning around the album area, you will find some of the more interesting books in Japan. These books are interesting because they are written by a variety of authors, from the proprietress who has been watching the windows of pawnshops for decades, to the nannies who work as nannies for the rich, the cleaners who sweep companies, the retired drivers of city bus companies, and the owners of car sales companies who have taken a back seat.

Books are written in the genre of autobiographies, novels, essays, haiku collections, and tanka collections, and no matter what kind of literary form, they all project their life experiences and perceptions in the context of the times in their works, and infiltrate their outlook on life and values into paper and ink.

With the exception of a few people's publications that can be sold in bookstores, most people's works are given to friends and family, or exchanged among literature lovers, and some people use autobiographies as a business card to meet new people.

Probably because the author's purpose of writing is different from that of professional writers, there is no foreshadowing of "fame" in the article, and there is no calculation of "best-selling", the biggest feature of these words is truth and simplicity, so that readers can read the experience and charm that cannot be experienced from his appearance through the author's past events.

Of course, because of this, most of the books that are lucky enough to enter the bookstore circulation have become "unsalable" products, and can only be sold through discounts on used books.

However, Lin Yi found that one of these books was well bound, regardless of the level of writing, but the importance that the publisher attached to the work was obvious.

Looking at the author's bio of this book, Saito, a peasant woman in her seventies, said that she never thought she would write a book. Because she found her father's poetry manuscript when she was tidying up the warehouse, in order to present her father's thoughts more than 100 years ago to her descendants, and also to taste the taste of "writing books", so she synthesized her life essays written over the years and the watercolor painting studies she had just learned, as well as her husband's daily haiku works that entertained himself, into a book of her own.

No matter what others think, the daughter of a farmer who has not graduated from elementary school, has dealt with loess all her life, and she can still hold up her chest and write books when she is old, her self-satisfaction and satisfaction are conceivable.

Looking at another book in the style of memoirs, the binding is also more interesting, and the surrounding decoration of the city rice ears looks like a wind-blown wheat wave.

Flipping through the book, it was the author's wife who helped write the preface.

The woman, Inaba, wrote that her retired husband, who had been involved in writing his memoirs lately, helped type his manuscript into the computer. I thought that I had known each other very well after following my husband for decades, but after reading my husband's article, I realized that my husband had been under work pressure and how much he cared about his family. Waiting for her husband to complete the manuscript every day becomes Ms. Inaba's journey to explore the secrets of her husband's heart.

Earlier, Lin Yi's Japanese ability and way of thinking could not understand the Japanese people's feelings and expressions of life, but now, with close contact, he can gradually understand a little bit of the inner world of the Japanese.

Novels, essays, and poems by domestic amateur literature enthusiasts can often be read on the Internet, but literary activity in China does not seem to be as widespread as in Japan. To be precise, "publishing books" in China is only the privilege of a small number of officials, celebrities, and celebrities. It's very difficult for ordinary people to publish a book, it's really difficult--- just a review will give you a headache.

However, in Japan, it is said that in the Edo period more than 400 years ago, there were many schools in the countryside that taught peasant children how to read and write, and many educated people began to pursue a spiritual life in their leisure time. Since then, it is no longer the prerogative of literati and artists to express their own life pictures in words, and to express their inner world and spiritual pursuits with poems, but also the ordinary entertainment of ordinary people. This habit has been passed down to this day, and this kind of romantic elegance has become a favorite part of the life of the Japanese people.

From this point of view, the Japanese people have a high ability to create and publish books. Perhaps that's why Japan has two Nobel laureates in literature, Yasunari Kawabata in 1968 and Kenzaburo Oe in 1994, while China has only a Mo Yan in 2012, almost a few decades apart---