Thousand cranes is a beautiful noun, which represents purity, beauty, piety and wishes in Japanese culture. Kawabata's novels have a great influence on later generations, such as Keigo Higashino's Wings of Kirin, which is repeatedly regarded as an important image throughout the novel.
Among Kawabata Yasunari's many works, Thousand Crane is not as famous as Snow Country and Dancer of Izu, and the novel seems to be not so excellent, but Thousand Crane is filled with a kind of sad and charming beauty, which is extremely soft, soft to sticky, extremely subtle, subtle and confusing. After writing Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata said that he didn't want to write a word except the sadness and beauty of the Japanese nation. Indeed, this sad beauty existed in his whole writing career.
In Thousand Cranes, Kawabata Yasunari mainly depicts several characters such as Kikuji, Mrs. Ota, Wen Zi, Guozi and Yukiko. Mrs OTA loves Kikuji's late father. Konko is a tea ceremony student of Kikuji's father and one of Kikuji's lovers. She has a palm-sized mole and hair on her left breast. Kikuji had a relationship with Mrs OTA. Guozi hated Mrs. Ota and decided that Mrs. Ota would disturb Kikuji's happiness, so he recommended his female disciple Xing Zi Inamura to Kikuji. There are thousands of beautiful cranes on Yukiko's bag, white and beautiful, without a trace of dust. This detail symbolizes Yukiko and Kikuji's desire for flawless beauty. Guozi tried to fix Kikuji and Yukiko, but Kikuji hated Kikuji and made him unwilling to accept it, but he couldn't resist his beautiful fantasy about Miss Yukiko. Mrs OTA's irresistible love for her lover's son made her feel morally bankrupt. In the end, she just tried to alleviate her sin by committing suicide. After the death of Mrs. Ota, her daughter Wen Zi kept in touch with Kikuji and eventually had a relationship. Wen Zi bears the double misfortune of Mrs. Ota's infidelity and the loss of her son. She was deeply ashamed of her mother's behavior, but she accepted it helplessly. In the last hint of the novel, Miss Wen Zi also committed suicide.
As Kawabata Yasunari said, death is a rejection of all understanding.
Kikuji's infatuation with Mrs. Ota may be just curiosity and motherhood, but she has a feeling of Mrs. Ota's shadow to the gentle and strong Miss Wen Zi, which makes him constantly lost. For Miss Yukiko, I think it is a kind of love and infatuation for beautiful things, and more importantly, an illusion. Kikuji really doesn't deserve this kind of beauty. All the storylines are constantly developing, just like an uncontrolled dream, full of contradictions but extremely real. In these dreams, the fate of each character is slowly presented.
In the novel, thousands of cranes dance in their dreams, beautiful and abstract. That terrible mole near the son's chest is ugly and concrete. Therefore, sad aestheticism comes from ugliness and immorality. In this aestheticism, loneliness and guilt are displayed. People are intoxicated by sin because of loneliness, and dumped by sadness because of ugliness.
After writing Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata said that he longed for thousands of pure white cranes flying in the Woods and the sky in the sunset. And mention the poem: thousands of cranes are like dreams in spring.
Walking in the world, ask, what is a dream and what is reality? The unattainable beauty is a dream, and the tired ugliness is a reality. The desire and shame of human nature constantly drive us to covet beauty and stick to morality. For the good, we always want and are afraid of losing; for the ugly, we always want to stay away and be curious. So we walked away from dreams and reality, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked alone.