@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002941,
 author = {Hartley, Barbara and HARTLEY, Barbara},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {39},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, This paper examines the representation of the “patriarch” in the long 1972 novel, Keraku (Bliss), by the post-war writer, Takeda Taijun (1912‒1976). With an I-novel undertone, Keraku is based on the real-life experiences of writer Takeda, an ordained Buddhist priest. The narrative tells of the nineteen-year-old protagonist, Ryu (Yanagi), who, prior to being dispatched to the continent as an Imperial Army conscript, assists his father, the head priest of a temple in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward. Rudderless in life, and without any great religious commitment, Ryu becomes peripherally involved in leftist activity. As a result, he is interned and savagely beaten at Meguro Police Headquarters. In spite of his position, the young man is strongly attracted to the beautiful young wife of the middleaged head of a company that supplies pharmaceuticals for the Imperial Army. In one scene of the novel, Ryu expresses his sexual long for this seductive young woman by secretly masturbating while reading an underground newspaper devoted to worker direct action.
Ryu’s father is the “authority figure” who stands in the midst of the volatile mix of sex, politics and religion that is the Keraku narrative space. Much more than the young man’s self-absorbed mother, Ryu’s father, who broke his vow of celibacy when he fell in love with and married the beautiful daughter of a prominent Buddhist family, leaves a profound impression upon readers. Rather than castigating the young man for his failings, this father, who was “born the second son of poor tenant farmers, and who, after entering a rural temple as a boy priest, eventually went up to the capital to become a department head at the denominational university,” tries to provide indirect guidance for the son for whom he feels both deep love and deep concern. Greatly respecting the older man, Ryu is filled with shame and self-loathing before this taciturn father who is largely unmoved by worldly desire. In this discussion, I will particularly consider how the representation of the patriarch given in Keraku contests the hegemonic discourse of extreme masculinity that prevailed in the pre-war era and thus provides an alternative male ideal that refuses to comply with the pre-war nationalistic norms that continue to have influence in contemporary times.},
 pages = {55--66},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　武田泰淳の文学における父親のイメージ},
 year = {2016},
 yomi = {ハートリー, バーバラ}
}