@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002025,
 author = {鶴田, 欣也 and TSURUTA, Kinya},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {3},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {pdf, In The Sound of the Mountain there are a good number of scenes where things are being cut. Earlier in the work Shingo observes a fishmonger cut up weeks and put back their meat into the shells. Shingo wonders to himself if the diced meat will go back into the original shells. In the end Yasuko tells her husband a story of a man having his own ear sewed back after having lost it in a trafic accident. The cut up welks and the sewed ear seem to have little common but they show the direction for which this work is heading; it is from “cutting”to “joining“. I have divided the novel into three parts in order to observe the theme of “cutting and joining“. In the first part nature’s cutting“ forces such as storms and aging are at work. Shingo passively stands terrified in front of this “cutting“ develops into a more dramatic and “artificial“ force, and reaches its climax in Kikuko’s abortion. On the other hand “joining“ takes a form of Eiko and Kikuko putting on a noh-mask and this art joining man stresses a positive aspect of life and love in contrast to the nagative cutting.
In the last part Shingo who has been a passive observer emerges as an active “cutter“. He negotiates Fusako’s divorce (cutting), Kinu’s separation from Shuichi, cuts Yatsude and mosquitos in his dream and finally makes a preparation to cut off Kikuko from him. One reason for this is that he has achieved his “joining“ with Kikuko in his dream. Further more in the and Shingo is now ready to identify himself with a falling trout in a haiker, thus he has “joined“ nature. Now he is out of his initial terror when he heard the sound of the mountain which was the sound of nature’s “cutting”. By “joining“ nature, a fear of “cutting“ had disappeared.},
 pages = {74--86},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表 『山の音』における「切り」と「合わせ」のテーマ},
 year = {1980},
 yomi = {ツルタ, キンヤ}
}