Chapter 10 Naoko Anfang and her magical forest, and the kingdom of heaven.../Peng Yi

Naoko Anfang and her magical forest, and the kingdom of heaven.../Peng Yi 1 If someone knocks on your door on a full moon night— If there is a gentle woman outside the door—— If the woman smiles at you and you follow her out the door as if by magic, you're walking in the fog, no, your feet are floating off the ground.Before long, she brings you into a large and magical forest.So, you see another country, where goblins haunt, where there are fox windows, where the branches are full of white parrots, where you can hear the girl's soul sobbing—— Then, I think this woman who is as beautiful as an elf is Naoko Anfang.

Only Naoko Anfang can tell such a dreamlike story. It was her own magical forest. Naoko Anbo once said that in my heart, there is a small place that I would like to call "Fairy Tale Forest", and thinking about it all day long has become my obsession.That forest is pitch black, and there is always a wind blowing through it.However, like moonlight, there is often a faint light coming in, and the things inside can be seen vaguely.For some reason, the people who live there are almost all lonely, pure, clumsy, and not good at dealing with the world.I often take one out as the protagonist of the work I am writing now. The bear in "The Handkerchief Left by the North Wind", the old man in "Snow Window", and Chiyo in "The Blue Thread" all came out of the same forest.

In fact, there are more than a few articles such as "The Handkerchief Left by the North Wind", "Snow Window" and "The Blue Thread"? Since the famous work "Huajiao Doll" came out, Naoko Anfang has never left the enchanted forest for more than 20 years. She has been living in it and sent us "The Enchanted Tongue"" The Hat Shop on Lilac Avenue, The Deer in the Sky, The Story of Dongji and the Bear, Fairy Tale of the Mountain: Roller Skates of the Wind, Field of Setaria - The Story of the Tofu Shopkeeper, etc. one after another. Among them, the one we are most familiar with and also the most popular is probably "The Fox's Window", right?

2 This is a short story. I would like to say that if I can only recommend one piece of Naoko Anfang’s work, this is it—— I lost my way, and in front of me was a field of blue lisianthus flowers. Then a little white fox flashed out.But I chased and chased, and it was like losing sight of the moon in the daytime, and I was just thrown away by it.Greetings came from behind, and a small clerk wearing a navy blue apron stood in front of a shop with a shop sign of "Dyeing? Kikyo House".I understood at a glance, hahaha, it was the little fox that changed just now! "Dye your fingers!"

As the fox said, he made a diamond-shaped window with four fingers dyed blue.Then, put this window on my eyes.He said happily: "Take a look inside." In the small window, you can see a beautiful female fox. "This is my mother ... a long, long time ago, was beaten to death with a 'bang--'." The fox went on to say: "Later, it was still such an autumn day, the wind was blowing, and the platycodon flowers said in unison: dye your fingers, and use them to build a window. From then on, I will no longer be lonely. No matter At any time, I can see my mother from this window."

In the window I saw a girl whom I used to like most, and who I will never see again.I wanted to say thank you, but I didn't have a penny in my pocket.The fox said: "Give me the gun, please." He took the gun and gave me some mushrooms. I went back happily. As I walked, I also put up the window with my hands.This time, it was raining in the window, and in the dimness, I saw the courtyard that I have always been affectionately attached to.The lights were on in the house, and there were two children laughing, one was my voice, and the other was my dead sister's voice... I put my hands down, I was so sad.The courtyard has long since disappeared and was burned down by fire.But I think it doesn't matter, I have a great finger, I want to cherish this finger forever!

But the first thing I do when I get home is wash my hands. It's all over! I wandered in the woods for several days, but I never found the platycodon flower field, nor did I see the little white fox. 3 Except for a few full-length novels such as "Tianlu", Naoko Anfang's works are very short, and most of her works are short story collections or short story series.Even she herself has publicly admitted that she is not good at writing novels.So some people say that Naoko Anfang is essentially a short story writer. Just like the "Fox's Window" mentioned above, Naoko Anfang's short stories are all written with great care and exquisiteness, just like empty and meaningful short songs. No wonder some writers commented that Naoko Anfang's works are meticulous and exquisite. Like embroidery, even the shape of the needle marks fit this person so well.This description is indeed appropriate, and it also coincides with my feelings when I read Naoko Anfang - I can't help but wonder, if Naoko Anfang is not a graceful elf who does not eat the fireworks of the world, how can she bear the loneliness and write How about such a slender work?

Her works are not only short, but also always filled with a quiet feeling. Like a gentle breeze, like Zen rain... Maybe it's her personality? Naoko Anfang is a woman far away from the hustle and bustle. She lives indifferently all her life and even refuses to travel.In a self-written chronicle, she once wrote that when she was 29 years old in 1972, she built a mountain hut in Karuizawa in the east of Nagano Prefecture, and spent every summer there after that.Miyoko Matsutani, the female writer who wrote "Two Idas" and "Ryuko Taro", once took a car to stop by Naoko Anbo's mountain hut one summer.She said that it was a place surrounded by larch trees. In the morning, Naoko Anfang would write on the table covered with a white tablecloth in the yard...

Only such a calm woman can write such spotless works! Shizuka Yamamuro is the guide who led Anfang Naoko on the road of creating fantasy novels. When he commented on her works, he wrote: The writing is like a person...just one step away, if the problems of the times are purposefully integrated into the works , it will attract the attention of the world, but she will never show off, but just like a flower blooming silently in a corner of the yard.This is her quality and style.I thought such a writer was a trustworthy writer. 4 Naoko Anbo said she likes to write fantasy novels. She said that sometimes she wanted to write a work just to describe a mental image that came to her mind one day so that others could see it vividly.For example, like the orange lights on a snowy night, the silhouette of a girl running in a rapeseed field, and a large flock of white birds resting in the forest.Sometimes, it's just a blue or green color.

She also said that she likes to write fantasy novels because "I love the subtly changing rainbow of colors between the realms of fantasy and reality. As a child, the realm of waking and sleeping is so fascinating." I was fascinated, thinking that I must remember the moment when I fell asleep tonight, and climbed into bed. However, after waking up, I couldn’t remember that moment at all. Because of this, I was particularly looking forward to that state The time of the line. The realm of fantasy and reality also has a similar charm to this, and the depiction of that borderline often fascinates me."

The biggest feature of Anfang Naoko's fantasy novels is that she sinks reality into the bottom layer of fantasy, thereby blurring the boundary line between reality and fantasy to the greatest extent. For example, in "The Fox's Window", "I", as an adult in the real world, just turned a corner on the mountain road, and the sky suddenly brightened dazzlingly. After blinking twice, I have already entered a fantasy world. As Mikio Ando said: "Naoko Anfang's skill lies in grasping the subtle communication between the real world and the unreal world. This kind of communication is still superficial in the famous work "Sansho Doll"... But in "The Fox's Window", the exchange of these two worlds is more clearly depicted. If you refer to British children's literature, this is a kind of time fantasy novel. However, there is nothing like "Nani To set up a time tunnel in an exaggerated way, as seen in "Legend of Asia" or "Tom in the Garden at Night." Of course, if I were to classify the style of Naoko Anfang's fantasy novels, it should be said to be a kind of fantasy novels close to Grimm's fairy tales! Regarding this point, Naoko Anfang did not mince words. She said that she likes Grimm's fairy tales. She said that the first book she read was Grimm's fairy tales. She read them from elementary school to junior high school, and after becoming a writer, she continued to read them over and over again. No matter how she read them, she felt new.She said that perhaps, the forest of fairy tales in my heart is a fragment of the big dark forest in the collection of Grimm's fairy tales that I have read in the past.She also said that she was too much influenced by the Grimm's fairy tales, and liked to write about the down-on-his-luck hero being helped by something with supernatural powers, and that if it wasn't in the form of a Grimm or folk tale, she couldn't write it. 5 What Naoko Anfang pursues is an aesthetic world. Her style is harmonious and stable, but there is a faint sadness floating in the sweet fantasy. Where does this sadness come from? Some people say it was born with it, and some people say it's because Anfang Naoko is an adopted daughter... In any case, she always starts from the perspective of a gentle woman, and integrates this kind of slight sadness into her poignant, ethereal and dreamlike words, and writes one after another, which is so simple that it is almost transparent but makes people feel life. A poignant and poetic story. Needless to say, "The Fox's Window" is about a day when autumn begins. A boy named Xin saw one after another long-haired girls riding orange bicycles, like a large group of red dragonflies, heading in the same direction flow away.Only Xin could see them, and he watched the countless orange bicycles fly towards the sky.That dusk was filled with a sweet floral fragrance that made people want to cry. Once the chest was full, there would be bursts of pain at nowhere, and then, a certain musical instrument hidden somewhere in the body would It sounded like a sob.Only then did Xin know that they were flower demons. The flower demon told Xin that no matter who they are, everyone has a violin in their hearts.Ah, it's the violin!The violin played in confidence was sobbing, and several autumn memories came to my mind—the days when my sister was sick and hospitalized, the days when Yuko next door moved to a far, far away place, the joy of riding a bicycle for the first time day, the day when I picked up a kitten in the field... Loneliness, death, warmth, love and lingering nostalgia are the most common themes in Anfang Naoko's works. When talking about Naoko Anfang's creative style, Taijiro Amazawa once wrote: Almost all of Naoko Anfang's works are full of sadness.But it's not cheap tears, tears that are shed because it's funny, or the bravado of howling and hating life's injustice.The sadness in Anfang Naoko's works is not because of the obvious death or farewell to the loved one, but a kind of pain in the chest. Many of Anfang Naoko's works involve death. For example, it tells the story of a girl named Shuihui, who found the underground Huangquan Kingdom through a white parrot, where not only her dead sister lived, but also white parrots perched on every tree, the sister told Shuihui : There is no exception for the birds on this tree. They are all relatives who miss me in another country. The strokes of "Snow Window" extend to the kingdom of heaven. It tells the story of a day when there is heavy snow, and the father pushes a cart called "Snow Window" over mountains and mountains to find his daughter, Mei, who has been dead for ten years. The story of the generation soul.Even in "The Fox's Window", the protagonist "I" saw the female fox who was shot to death and the house that was destroyed by fire through the window made of fingers dyed blue with platycodon flower juice. That's why Konishi Masaho said: No matter which of Naoko Anfang's works, there seems to be the shadow of death floating around. "Dialogue with the dead" or "memory of the dead" has even become another major charm of Naoko Anfang's works besides the unique and unique imaginary world.Death was once a big taboo in children's literature, but Naoko Anfang did not avoid this topic, but wrote a series of sweet and nostalgic works with Grimm's fairy tale-style fantasy novels.Although the fantasy is filled with a kind of boundless loneliness, it is so beautiful and lyrical, not cold and gloomy at all. The thoughts and implication of Naoko Anfang's works are profound. They not only describe the life beyond reality, but also let us see the abyss of life.Nishimoto Kosuke pointed out: "Although it is a sweet fantasy story, it is fundamentally different from the sad fairy tales of the Hoshisumi school (referring to the romantic school that sings about love in the Meiji era in Japan) and the folk fairy tales that escape reality. The fantasy world does not stop at In the longing, but with deep and keen insight, it explores the philosophical proposition of what a human being is. It seems to be an incredible fictional story, but it is not an absurd lie but a symbol of real life. Therefore, even adults cannot No empathy." 6 Another distinctive feature of Naoko Anfang's works is color and sound. She once said that what inspired her to write "The Fox's Window" was a field of blue flowers.On a certain plateau, a place where even the blowing wind is dyed blue—there is an endless blue sky, blue flower fields— This is also the feeling of everyone who has read Naoko Anfang's works, like the orange bicycle rushing towards the sky like the water in Li, the blue fireflies like snow and falling flowers in Li, the orange and yellow bicycle in "The Land of the Setting Sun". The desert... Naoko Anfang used her charming imagination to draw colorful fantasy worlds for us. In addition to color, Naoko Anfang sometimes has an impulse: to write a story with audible sound.She said that "Snow Window" was written under the drive of this idea. 7 However, it is embarrassing that such a beautiful woman who has nothing to do with the world left behind a fantasy work like a wild chrysanthemum on the hillside, and left early, and went to that distant heaven alone early. Is writing too many stories about death? Nobody knows. I don't know if there is a white parrot on the tree beside her.But I think that tree must be full of white parrots, because everyone who has read her works will let their white parrots carry a piece of nostalgia. "Until the Pinto Bean Is Boiled—The Story of Saya" is the posthumous work of Naoko Anfang, a fantasy novel that was not published until one month after her death. Xiao Ye is a mountain spirit, the daughter of the mountain. When writing this work, I don’t know if Naoko Anfang had already foreseen her own death, otherwise, how could Xiaoye in her writing look so much like herself at the end of her life—— Open your arms and cross the suspension bridge, can you really become the wind?The body becomes transparent little by little, and finally the figure disappears, leaving only the voice, right?In that case, you can fly anywhere, right? "Become the wind, become the wind, I want to become the mountain wind!" Xiao Ye always sang like this while rushing across the suspension bridge with open arms. ... One day, after running for a while, when I ran to the middle of the bridge, my body suddenly became lighter, and my feet floated into the air.Then, it became like being able to swim in the air. ... Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up... Xiao Ye gradually increased her speed and flew up. A beautiful elf far away from the hustle and bustle: Naoko Anfang