Yasuki Kawabata opened "Snow Country", saw the introduction, and found that it was a collection of novels.

Including "The Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Snow Country", the author is called Harushu Murakami.

He subconsciously thought that this was the work of a Japanese writer, and seeing the name "The Dancing Girl of Izu" gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

In the summer of 1922, he wrote an essay entitled "Memories of Yushima", which was not published.

The reason for writing this is that while he was traveling in Izu, he happened to meet a group of wandering entertainers at the Yumoto Hotel in Yushima, and he was so impressed by one of the young geisha that he wrote this memory.

At that time, I felt that I was not very mature, so I put it on the shelf and did not submit it.

He flipped through a few pages, and the more he read, the more surprised he was that the plot of "The Dancing Girl of Izu" was so similar to the storyline of "Memories of Yushima" he had written last year, and some of the sentences were exactly the same.

But I have to say that this novel is much more mature than his novel, both in terms of story telling and style.

Yasuki Kawabata can be sure that he put it away after writing "Memories of Yushima", and even his best friend hasn't read it, so this "Dancing Girl of Izu" can only be said to be a coincidence.

After all, Izu is a tourist attraction in the country, and Yushima is famous for its hot springs, which many Japanese people travel to, and it is also a gathering place for itinerant artists, so it is not uncommon to encounter itinerant artists.

And in every group of wandering artists, there are always young geisha, who are fresh and beautiful, and people can't help but feel pity.

What happened to me is the same as what happened to countless other people, nothing surprising, but some people forget it later. Some people have forgotten it and written it. Record it.

For a while, Yasuki Kawabata felt that he and Mr. Harushu Murakami, who had never met before, could be a confidant.

They are equally delicate and sensitive people. It was a person who also loved good things, and he had the urge to know this person.

Jin Dongguang saw that Kawabata Yasuki was stunned, so he pushed him and asked the reason, and the two were very good friends.

Kawabata Yasuki smiled and didn't say anything, this kind of wonderful thing can only be understood but not spoken, and if you say it, no one will believe it, so it is better to hide it in your heart.

He handed this "Snow Country" to Kim Dongguang. Kim Dongguang is also a cutting-edge Japanese writer.

At this moment, Kawabata Yasuki is eager to know the origin of these books, where is the author of this "Snow Country"?

He inquired with the staff of the police headquarters, but the news was that the books were donated by China, and the staff complained that the donation was not good, but that they were donating these useless things.

Because of the large number of victims and looting incidents in many places, most of the relief materials are stored at the police headquarters and transported when needed.

The police don't know what to do with these books. It can only be stacked there temporarily, waiting for orders.

Perhaps there is also a need for a review by the cultural department, who knows if there are any unhealthy books in it, and they are not proficient in Chinese.

Yasuki Kawabata thought about it. That "Snow Country" should have been written by Japanese expatriates living in China, and these books should not be piled up here and trampled on at will.

He and two others agreed that the books should be delivered to the university or the library as soon as possible.

As for the issue of censorship. At this time, the cultural department may not be able to take care of it, so it can only keep everything simple. Just find an expert who is proficient in Chinese to identify it.

In Japan, there are many scholars who are proficient in the Chinese language. Many Japanese people know some Chinese.

At this time, Yasushi Kawabata and Kim Dongguang were just emerging in the Japanese literary scene, and Akutagawa Ryunokai was already a famous writer.

Born in 1892, Akutagawa Ryunokai wrote what would become world-famous Under the Bamboo Forest in 1915, but he was still an unknown young man and did not make his mark on the Japanese literary scene until 1919.

In 1921, he was sent to China as an overseas observer by the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun.

In China, he traveled from Shanghai to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Nanjing, and Wuhu, and then up the river to Hankou, Dongting, Changsha, and Beijing via Zhengzhou, Luoyang, and Longmen.

He knows Chinese literature very well, and especially likes "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West".

He came forward and sent an application to the Japanese Ministry of Culture to handle the books shipped from China on his behalf.

It was only a few days later that the Japanese Ministry of Culture replied and sent a commissioner to take charge of the matter.

Later, these books were sent to various universities and libraries in Japan, and some of the books that propagated the revolution and were unhealthy in thought were confiscated and burned.

Yasuki Kawabata took "Snow Country" and returned to Tokyo to read it carefully.

He has a familiar sense of intimacy with "The Dancing Girl of Izu", and he can only be deeply impressed by "Snow Country".

He felt that this kind of work, which blended traditional Japanese literature and Western literature, was extremely powerful.

At this time, in the Japanese literary world, the "new school of thought" represented by the Akutagawa Ryuno Realm was very popular.

The New Ideas believed that literary works could be fictional, emphasized the diversity of subject matter, and paid great attention to writing skills and the perfection of artistic forms.

This school of thought expresses the dissatisfaction of the Japanese petty bourgeoisie at the beginning of this century with reality and suffering from the fact that there is no way out.

Yasuki Kawabata is also a follower of the "New Thought" at the moment, but he is not satisfied with this way of writing and wants to innovate, and "Snow Country" has given him great inspiration.

He and Kim Dongguang discussed the way "Snow Country" was written, and there was a sense of enlightenment.

He really wanted to communicate with the author of "Snow Country", but he did not have the author's contact information, so he had to write a long letter with the attitude of trying it out and send it to the publisher that published "Snow Country".

A publishing house called Vientiane Bookstore, and asked the bookstore to pass it on to the author himself.

At the same time, Yasuki Kawabata also published a literary review of "Snow Country" in "Literary Spring and Autumn", praising the novel and calling it the purest text in Japan.

The magazine was founded in January 1923 by Kikuchi Money.

The reason was that Kikuchi was tired of writing to suit the preferences of publishers and editors, and claimed that "I want to write my own words", so he gathered more than 20 fandoms and founded the magazine "Literary Spring and Autumn", which advertised "pure literature".

Yasuki Kawabata is the editor of "Literature and Art Spring and Autumn".

The magazine later established the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize, and it had a great influence on the Japanese literary scene.

"Snow Country" has also gained the attention of the Japanese literary circle because of the strong recommendation of "Literary Spring and Autumn".

In Shanghai, Lin Zixuan received a letter from Ping Banya, which had been translated into Chinese, and he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly when he looked at the person who wrote the letter and the content of the letter.

The so-called confidant is just another self of Kawabata Yasuko. (To be continued.) )