Judging from Yasushi Inoue's childhood and boyhood, we have to say that he is very special compared with ordinary people in the world.Although his parents are still alive and he has younger siblings, he is far away from his parents and spent his childhood in a warehouse with his unrelated grandmother.When he was a teenager, because his father was a military doctor, he was often transferred, so he left his parents alone and spent his free middle school days.The story of this period was described by Yasushi Inoue in his autobiography and autobiographical works.For example, "White Horse Pulling a Cart", "Things of My Childhood", "Summer Grass and Winter Waves", etc.By reading these works, when wandering in Yasushi Inoue's childhood and youth, we can almost find out all the reasons that later made Yasushi Inoue become a novelist.Even if it is precisely because of this special childhood that the novelist Inoue Yasushi was born, it is not an exaggeration.

Inoue Yasushi was born as the eldest son in Asahikawa, Hokkaido on May 6th, the 40th year of Meiji (1907). This is because his father, Inoue Hayao, was working in the military medical department of the Asahikawa Seventh Division. In fact, their family was originally from Shizuoka. Yunoshima in Kamikano Village, Tagata County, Prefecture.Hayao Inoue was born in the Ishito family of Monnohara, Kamikano Village. After graduating from the Kanazawa Medical College, he became a military doctor. He later entered the Inoue family and married their eldest daughter, Yae.The Inoue family has been practicing medicine in Izu since the Meiwa period. It is said that their ancestors were refugees from Shikoku. They brought his mother to Yunoshima, took off the straw sandals, and settled in the local area.Among the ancestors of the Inoue family, Yasushi Inoue respects the most is his great-grandfather Kiyoshi Inoue, who is equivalent to the fifth generation.Kiyoshi Inoue studied under Mr. Shun Matsumoto, the senior military medical director, and served as the director of the County Mishima Hospital when he was young.After retiring in middle age, he returned to his hometown of Yunoshima.At that time, he was a well-known doctor in Izu area.Legend has it that he also traveled to Numazu and Shimoda in a sedan chair to make medical visits.

When Yasushi Inoue was five years old, he left his parents and returned to his hometown of Yunoshima, where he was raised by a concubine named Kano of his great-grandfather.Kano served Kiyoshi Inoue for a long time, and in order to repay her for her hard work, he let her enter the household registration as Yae's adoptive mother.So Kano became Inoue Yasushi's grandmother at home.Originally, Yasushi Inoue was fostered with Kano as an expedient measure in case another younger sibling would be born, but in fact, it continued unknowingly.On the other hand, Kana feels spiritually assured that the eldest son of the Inoue family is placed by his side as a so-called "hostage", and is unwilling to let go.Inoue Yasushi and Kano lived on the second floor of the warehouse, listening to her tell stories about Matsumoto Jun and his great-grandfather all day long.Inoue Yasushi used the word "alliance" in "My History of Growth" to describe the relationship between him and his unrelated grandmother. The special environment in his childhood made him learn to face reality since he was a child, and it can be said that he formed the relationship between him and his grandmother. The foundation that made him a writer.

In the third year of Taisho (1914), Yasushi Inoue entered Yunoshima Elementary School. At that time, the principal of the elementary school was Morio Ishidu.When Yasushi Inoue was in the second grade, his mother's younger sister Miki graduated from a girls' school in Numazu and returned to her hometown, and applied for a substitute teacher in their elementary school.Like her older sister Yae, Maggie is beautiful.Majesty loves Yasushi Inoue, and Yasushi Inoue also likes his young and beautiful aunt.Perhaps in Inoue Yasushi's mind, Majestic unknowingly replaced the image of a mother far away from home.Missing my mother turned into love for my aunt.

Maggie fell in love with a young colleague at school and dropped out of school after becoming pregnant.Pregnant Majesty gets married in a rickshaw at night in order to avoid people's eyes and ears. This plot is beautifully described in the book "White Horse Pulling a Cart".Maggie fell ill and died shortly after her marriage.The beautiful image of this aunt who died young grew and sublimated in Yasushi Inoue's heart, and finally developed into an eternal female idol.The longing for his mother entrusted to the young aunt continued to survive in his later works, manifested as his longing for an ideal female idol.It can be said that Sanshi Tatsuko in "Range", Minako in Zhong, Yubuji in Zhong and Hulan in "Grey Wolf" are all the incarnations of this young and beautiful aunt.

Inoue's grandmother Kano passed away when Yasushi Inoue was in the sixth grade of elementary school.After that, he came to Hamamatsu, where his father lived, in order to take the middle school entrance examination.Due to the impact of the death of his grandmother and the changes in the environment on the heart of the young Yasushi Inoue, he failed to be admitted to Hamamatsu No. 1 Middle School.But in April of the following year, he succeeded with the first place.Soon after enrolling, he won the first prize in the honor student selection examination in Shizuoka Prefecture.When Yasushi Inoue was in the second grade of middle school, his father was transferred to the director of Taipei Weixu District Hospital. He transferred to Numazu Middle School and lived with his aunt in Mishima. He had to walk seven or eight miles to go to school every day.Perhaps due to leaving the constraints of his parents, Yasushi Inoue's grades have been declining. In April of his fourth grade, he was sent to boarding at Myokakuji Temple in Numazu.He became more and more lazy, that is, during this period of time he made friends who were fond of literature, learned to smoke and drink, and literature began to sprout in his heart.

The work describing Numazu's junior high school days is "Summer Grass Winter Wave".One of the motives in this work, which simultaneously describes the awakening of sex and the germination of literature, is a sense of inferiority.This work touches everywhere on the inferiority complex of a boy who grew up in the countryside when facing the city.The boy's admiration for the opposite sex mixed with the countryman's shrinking in the presence of his relatives' beautiful sisters made a special impression. Inferiority complex and the feeling of missing his mother constitute one of the important factors supporting Yasushi Inoue's literature.Although it may be this inferiority complex that caused the country people to cringe, the more reasonable reason may be that they failed the exams repeatedly.Only going to elementary school is smooth sailing. Whether it is entering junior high school, high school or university, it will be a series of twists and turns.By the time he graduated from university, Yasushi Inoue was already twenty-eight years old and married.All these had an immeasurable impact on a young man's keen sensibility.Inoue Yasushi himself once described the inferiority complex in "My History of Growth", "This inferiority complex has changed into various forms, and it has been affecting my life until later."

This kind of inferiority complex is described in many works of Yasushi Inoue. For example, "The Life of a Fake Painter" follows the footsteps of a painter who made fake Japanese paintings, and revolves around the theme of inferiority complex; And Zhao Xingde, who lost the opportunity to be a Jinshi, can be said to be a portrayal of the author himself. Yasushi Inoue was admitted to the Fourth Higher Science School in April of the second year. He joined the judo club when he entered the school. He tried to change his lazy life in the past and devoted himself to ascetic practice day and night.In the third grade, due to conflicts with his seniors in judo practice time, he was finally dismissed from the judo club.During this period of time, Yasushi Inoue began to write poetry, and contributed to "Nippon Sea Poets" in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture.He also founded the magazine "North Crown" with young poets in Takaoka City.In this way Yasushi Inoue began his era of literary debauchery.

In the fifth year of the Showa era (1930), Yasushi Inoue entered the English Department of the Law and Literature Department of Kyushu Tei University, and soon lost interest in continuing to study. He went to Tokyo and lived on the second floor of Ueki House in Komaguri, where he indulged in reading literature books.But he is not lazy and lazy all day long. In addition to founding the magazine "Literature ABC" with his friends, he also joined the magazine "Homme" sponsored by Fukuda Takeo, and took the Keio Line from Komagari to Fukuda in Sezuka every day. Go home to concentrate on learning to write poetry.

In April of the seventh year of Showa (1932), Inoue Yasushi dropped out of Kyushu Tei University and entered the Department of Philosophy of the Department of Literature of Kyoto Tei University, where he was taught by Dr. Ueda Hiszo, specializing in aesthetics.Although he entered Peking University, he hardly attended classes, and went to the snack bar near Yoshida-san's accommodation every day to drink and hang out.But during this period he also founded a magazine "Sacrament" with friends who majored in philosophy.In November of the 10th year of the Showa era (1935), although he was still studying at school, he married Fumi, the eldest daughter of Buntaro Adachi, an honorary professor at Kyoto Imperial University.The origin of the Adachi family is also in Izu, which is equivalent to relatives of the Inoue family.Yasushi Inoue's father-in-law, Buntaro, is a world-renowned anatomist among his peers. He is the prototype of the old anatomist Shuntaro Miike in "Hira's Heather".

When he was studying in Peking University, Yasushi Inoue was a little bit cash-strapped, so he participated in the "SUNDAY Daily" award for novel manuscripts, in order to get a bonus after the manuscripts were confiscated.In the 11th year of Showa (1936), that is, the year he graduated from university, his manuscript "Circulation" was selected and won the first Chiba Kameo Award. Because of this opportunity, he entered the Osaka head office of "Mainichi Shimbun" . As a newspaper reporter, this was an incubation and gestation period for Yasushi Inoue.At the beginning, Yasushi Inoue worked as a religious reporter, and later he was in charge of an art column.As a religious reporter, the commentary on Buddhist scriptures written in the academic column later became Hezhong's knowledge base on Buddhist scriptures.Although it is said that Yasushi Inoue's works have a strong painting character, and he himself has a unique eye for art, but it is undeniable that with more than ten years of experience as an art reporter, Yasushi Inoue's painting qualifications have been further honed .On the other hand, Yasushi Inoue also formed deep friendship with Kansai poets such as Anxi Dongwei, Takenaka Iku, Ono Shisanro, and Noma Hiroshi during this period of time. In the 20th year of the Showa era (1945), Yasushi Inoue began to publish his poems in poetry magazines and newspapers in Kansai.After twenty years of long literary wandering and brewing period, his works suddenly stood out.Almost all of these poems have been included in the collection of poems "North Country", and it can be seen that it is these poems that laid the literary foundation of Yasushi Inoue.Works built on this basis include "Shotgun" and "Bullfighting". In February of the 25th year of the Showa era (1950), Inoue Yasushi won the 22nd Akutagawa Award for "Bullfighting" and entered the literary world. . As mentioned above, the important factors supporting Yasushi Inoue’s literature are inferiority complex and feelings of missing his mother, and another important factor is his painting personality.This pictorial character is clearly seen in the poems published in the "Northern Country".Almost all of these poems have a painted landscape at their center.Moreover, the outlines of such painted images are always sharp and clear.For example, there is such a painting image in the center of "Heather of Hira", a large white heather blooming on the slope of Mount Bira.It depicts the image of parents standing in the dark beside the railing of the station. The swirls among the rocky reefs of Kumano Nada Ghost Town in "Vortex" form a distinct image.What is important is that these clear images are not just pictorial images, they are also psychological images that contain the author's poetry.And running through these mental images is the shadow of loneliness. Yasushi Inoue said in the preface to "Northern Country": "I tried to reread the notes carefully this time, and found that my work is not so much a poem as it is that I can't escape the scope of poetry, and I am locked in a In a small box." Of course, this is an extremely modest evaluation of his own works, but these plain words reveal the secret of Yasushi Inoue's transition from poetry to novel.It is often said that Yasushi Inoue's poems are the leavening powder of novels.In fact, many of Yasushi Inoue's novels have the same name as his poems, such as "Shotgun", "Hira's Heather", "Vortex" and so on.Let's put it this way, Yasushi Inoue can first capture the essence of literature—poetry—in the form of prose poetry, lock it up, and then attach the muscles in the form of novels.This is exactly what it means to say that the poems of "North Country" laid the literary foundation of Inoue Yasushi. Therefore, Yasushi Inoue's novels, especially short stories, mostly contain the same painting images as poems.For example, the pair of big gloves in "Mr. Dodor's Gloves", and the white waves churning on the surface of Lake Inawashiro in winter in "Rabbit on the Lake".In this way, these images become the motivation of the work, and thus symbolize a person, she is the old grandmother who endures the eyes of the surrounding, miserly and introverted. The most representative of these painterly images is the "white river bed" in the poem "Shotgun". "I used to want to creep like a hunter in the clutter of the city, walking slowly, quietly, and calmly. The middle-aged people who glimpsed the white riverbed of life felt lonely in both spirit and body , and isn’t it a well-polished shotgun that immerses both aspects at the same time to create the impression of weight?” Viewing a person's life as a dry white riverbed runs through Yasushi Inoue's works, and it is not too much to attribute the original literary image of Yasushi Inoue to a "white riverbed". But where did Yasushi Inoue's loneliness represented by "White Riverbed" come from?Inoue Yasushi wrote a short story called "Abandoned Mother Mountain".This work is to explore the hereditary "will to escape from the world" and the heart of breaking away from reality in the family.His mother once revealed that she wanted to be thrown on the mountain of abandoning her mother; after her sister got married, she had two children, and another person ran away from her husband's house; the younger brother suddenly resigned when the newspaper office was doing well and went back to the countryside. These are all facts .In addition, his great-grandfather Inoue Kiyoshi resigned from his post as a military doctor at the age of fifty and returned to the countryside.His father, Hayao Inoue, hardly ever went out and spent the rest of his life at home for thirty years. If you trace the family tree of the Inoue family, you can find many such people.From this we can see how deep the lineage of the "Abandoned Mother Mountain" of the Inoue family is.Inoue Yasushi made the following evaluation when reviewing the life of journalists in "My History of Growth": "There are two kinds of people living in the working environment of a newspaper office. One is a person who has a competitive heart; From one day on, whether you like it or not, you have to give up the competition." Yasushi Inoue used the word "abandon" to express his "will to escape from the world". The protagonist in "The Life of a Fake Writer" and Zhao Xingde in "The Life of a Fake Writer" are both so-called people who give up their lives.On the other hand, Yasushi Inoue also said in "My History of Growth" that "I am hostile to my parents' conservative attitude towards life, and I should always fight against it." This kind of anger is expressed in "Bullfighting" and "Range" and other works In the middle, but it is not actual action, and it is all covered with a deep shadow of nothingness.People usually divide Yasushi Inoue's works into two types according to the two debut novels "Shotgun" and "Bullfighting", which are just like the inside and outside sides of a shield. "Shotgun" expresses the lonely world, while "Bullfighting" Expressing the world of action, they allude to Inoue's inner tension between his recluse lineage and rebellious action. The view of life as an exhausted riverbed is still developing, and finally runs through a series of historical novels headed by him.The thought flowing in the bottom layer of Yasushi Inoue's historical novels is an idea of ​​the illusory fate of the characters in the passing years.The pioneer works of these historical novels include short stories such as "Man from a Foreign Land", "The Tears of the Monk Xinghe", and "The Story of the Jade Bowl".From "White River Bed" to the concept of historical destiny, there are two works with transitional significance: "Memorandum of Chengxian Fang" and "The Life of a Fake Writer".From the perspective of viewing life as a dry riverbed, these two works can really be said to be the concrete manifestations of the "white riverbed". It is about the story of four overseas monks traveling to China on a boat sent to China to invite the eminent monk Jianzhen of the Tang Dynasty in order to introduce precepts to Japan.The work depicts their will and passion beyond the individual, and the image of wrestling with nature and time.What often appears here is the restlessness of history and fate. The flexible use of painting methods completely eliminates speculation about the inner world of the characters on stage, and only accumulates clear images.In this way, an image of helpless fate emerges behind it.This is a world of narrative poetry developed and deepened by "White Riverbed". In the middle, this method is more thorough.There is a lake that moves to the center of the desert at a cycle of 1,500 years, called "Lop Nur", and Loulan is a small country that was buried by the desert next to Lop Nur when it moved.This image itself already has the magnificent poetic flavor of history and nature.The characters here are all faded into dots in the distant view, while the history and destiny are depicted in close-up. Since then, the writer has published many masterpieces of historical novels, such as "Grey Wolf" about Genghis Khan, "Wind Wave" about Yuan Kou from the standpoint of Koreans, tracing back "Russian Country Drunk Dream Story" about the wandering life of Okoroya Kotao. Now it must also be pointed out that Yasushi Inoue is, symbolically speaking, a modern writer.Yasushi Inoue won the Akutagawa Award and entered the literary world in the 25th year of Showa (1950), which coincided with the period when intermediate novels and newspaper novels were in the ascendant.Fortunately or not, Inoue Yasushi entered the literary world during such a period.Intermediate novels and newspaper novels ushered in their heyday in the Showa 30s (1955-1965), and Yasushi Inoue published a large number of works in the decade centered on the Showa 30s (1955). There are so many that it is hard to imagine that they were written by a writer. Now Yasushi Inoue, as can be seen in "Moonlight" and "Tao Li Ji", no matter in novels or poems, he describes the characters around him and his relatives. In these works, we can see the personality beyond personality. Primitive human existence.This kind of seeing the inner essence from the surface of things is of course the result of Yasushi Inoue's long-term observation of the image of things to deepen his vision.