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• W4313787653 abstract "Tiger Hunt (1942) Nakajima Atsushi Translated with an introduction by Nobuko Miyama Ochner In 1934, the story Tiger Hunt (Toragari) by Nakajima Atsushi (1909–42) was submitted to a literary contest hosted by Chūō kōron (Central Review), one of the most prestigious general circulation periodicals in Japan, and earned an honorable mention in the journal's July issue. A postcard that Nakajima sent to a friend that year indicates that this was not the first time that the twenty-five-year old teacher and aspiring writer had submitted this work to a literary contest, which suggests Nakajima's confidence in the value of the story.1 Nonetheless, this early work remained unpublished until 1942, when it was included in a collection of Nakajima's stories titled Light, Wind, and Dreams (Hikari to kaze to yume). The long-delayed publication of Tiger Hunt in book form came about because of Nakajima's successful literary debut with the publication of two stories, Moon over the Mountain (Sangetsu ki) and The Curse of Letters (Mojika), in the February 1942 issue of the journal Bungakukai (Literary World). This was followed by the publication of the novella Light, Wind, and Dreams in the May 1942 issue of the same journal. Light, Wind, and Dreams was subsequently named a candidate for the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in the summer of 1942. Finally, Nakajima was in a position to have his earlier works published. Set in colonial Korea of the 1920s, Tiger Hunt tells the story of a friendship between a Japanese boy (the first-person narrator) and his Korean classmate, as it evolved over several years of their boyhood. The frame of the story is set some fifteen years later, making the narrative a retrospective, and thereby drawing a sharp contrast between then and now. Unlike the fantastic tale of a man transformed into a tiger told in Moon over the Mountain, one of Nakajima's best-known works, Tiger Hunt is told in a realistic manner. Nakajima lived in Korea from 1920 to 1926. He relocated to the peninsula together with his family when his father secured a teaching position there, one that came with a [End Page 204] better salary. The young Nakajima attended school in Korea from the time he was in the fifth grade of elementary school until his fourth year of middle school. Ten years before his family arrived in Korea, in 1910, imperial annexation had resulted in the establishment of the government-general (sōtokufu) by the Japanese. For the next thirty-five years, until the end of World War Two, Korea was a de facto colony of Japan. The young Nakajima's observations and experiences during his stay in Korea undoubtedly served as background for the story Tiger Hunt, providing a solid feel of actual life—including the actual names of city districts, train stations, villages, mountains, a river, and so on. Descriptions of sensory material add a sense of reality—sandstorms, a tropical fish display at the Mitsukoshi Department Store, a lunch of frozen rice balls, a tiger in the zoo. However, there is no record of Nakajima having gone on a tiger hunt, or even of his close association with a classmate who precisely fits the description of the fictional Korean friend, Cho. Nakajima's former classmates have commented on a possible model for Cho, but they offer different portraits. Yamazaki Yoshiyuki recalls a Korean classmate, a tall, handsome, gentle and quiet student who may have been named Cho.2 Fellow writer Yuasa Katsue, however, remembers a tall, fair-complexioned, gentle student whose name was Yi Talchae.3 Another middle school classmate, Itō Komao, thought that a big student named Cho in the judo club might have been the model, and there was also a student named Kim Taehwan, suggesting that Nakajima might have combined two names to come up with Cho Taehwan.4 From these former classmates' recollections, we surmise that the only point of agreement among them is that a tall Korean student from a good family was a classmate of Nakajima. However, Nakajima's characterization of Cho, from his facial features to his personality traits—self-conscious, somewhat cynical, and having a sneering attitude..." @default.
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• W4313787653 title "Tiger Hunt (1942)" @default.
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