Lushan Landscape Writing by Modern Japanese Literati—A Case Study of Junichiro Tanizaki and Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Lushan landscape has long been a cultural icon in Chinese history,captivating Japanese literati for centu-ries.During the modern period,as cultural exchanges between China and Japan grew increasingly frequent,many Japanese literati visited Jiujiang and captured their impressions of Lushan in their writings.A close reading of Junichiro Tanizaki's and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's depictions of Lushan reveals contrasting perspectives:Tanizaki,immersed in the"Chinese aes-thetic",employs cinematic techniques and rich literary rhetoric to craft a stunning portrayal of Lushan's scenery;Akutaga-wa,on the other hand,often observes and describes the underdeveloped state of Lushan during his time,expressing a sense of disillusionment and loss caused by the gap between the imagined and the real Lushan.Although their writings differ in content,both exhibit,to some extent,an"Orientalist gaze"as external"others"when examined through the lens of Orien-talism.By analyzing the impressions of Lushan in Tanizaki's and Akutagawa's texts,this study enriches and expands re-search on global writings about the Lushan landscape.
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