Wandering writer

   Wandering writer

wander writers

Some writers are the type of people who continue to wander many times. To accomplish something, to visit acquaintances, and to nothing. There are various purposes, but once you do it, you become addicted and often travel many times. How did that happen?

This time, I decided to focus on five domestic and foreign writers and follow their free-spirited steps.

Taneda Santoka "Wandering to die"

wandering to die

Area: Centered in western Japan & only once to Tohoku

Taneda Santoka, famous for his freedom poetry and the name of a ramen shop, was born in a good family in Yamaguchi Prefecture. In his childhood, he was called "Shosama" and was loved. However, at the age of 10, his father was absorbed in election campaigns and geisha play, and his mother, who could not see it, committed suicide by jumping into a well. This trauma made me unmotivated no matter what I did.

I got married in my twenties and had a child

"The first misfortune is my mother's suicide, the second misfortune is a drinking habit. The fourth misfortune is marriage and becoming a father."

Is ranting. It's quite appropriate to skip the third, but I couldn't get married with this feeling and divorced. Opening an antiquarian bookstore in Kumamoto failed, and relatives died one after another. When I thought that I had moved to Tokyo, I was involved in the Great Kanto Earthquake and eventually returned to Kumamoto. It's just stepping on and kicking.

I don't know anymore. At the age of 42, Santouka was sharp. After getting drunk and jumping out in front of the tram and causing trouble to people, he decided to go home at the temple where he was taken over. Wearing a faded robe and jikatabi, he rushes into the days of wandering. Of course, in such a state, there was no way to follow such rules as haiku being 5, 7, 5, and the style became more and more chaotic.

To visit a place related to the respected Ozaki Hosai, to pilgrimage to his late mother, to meet an old friend ... I ran around western Japan for some reason, and then traversed 88 places in Shikoku. However, it is ironic because he is too enthusiastic to lose his goal and attempt suicide because of his emptiness.

"Let's go on a journey to find a place to die"

It was the ultimate state of affairs when I was about 60 years old. Departing from his hometown of Yamaguchi, he continues walking innocently for about half a year. Before I knew it, the road had reached Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture. In the end, I couldn't find a place to die like this, but it seems that my heart was a little blown away by the long journey that I have never seen before. At Eiheiji Temple in Fukui Prefecture, where I stopped by on my way home, I left behind my masterpiece "Eiheiji 3 Phrase", and at the end I enjoyed riding a boat without a gala.

The place of death that I finally found in my last years was Ichikusaan in Matsuyama, which is known for its warm climate. "Ichiki Ichikusa and Shizuka also receive the life of the universe and live a life of gratitude," he wrote in his diary.

"Wandering because I was a married couple"

"Wandering because I was a married couple"

Area: Southeast Asia-Paris

The poet Mitsuharu Kaneko is a wandering elite. Born in a liquor store in Aichi Prefecture in 1895, his father failed in business at the age of two. He is making a spectacular debut as he wanders in the chest of his parents.

The clear light of the eyes quickly became popular at the place of residence. With her cuteness as a weapon, she gets an adoption with a wealthy family, but her propensity is greatly distorted because she is surrounded by women and dressed as a woman. After that, he moved to Tokyo and received advanced education such as learning from "the last ukiyo-e artist" Kiyoshige Kobayashi. It seems that he grew up a little too loosely, and at the age of 11, he planned to go to the United States and left home (as expected).

I want to go abroad, but I don't feel like working. It was in my mid-20s that the turning point came under the swaying light. With the death of his adoptive father, a huge heritage of about 300 million yen at present value has been rolled in. This is the moment when the gold rod is handed over to the demon of desire.

Mitsuharu first published a douujinshi and a collection of virgin poems, "Akado no Ie," and failed in the mining business. After that, I went to Europe as if nothing had happened. After returning to Japan, my father, who suddenly appeared, asked me for money, saying, "I want to invent," and the heritage has run out in just a few years.

Then, in 1924, he met Michiyo Mori, a fateful woman. Two people who are similar get married and get pregnant without any plan. I fell into extreme poverty, which was enough to delinquent rent for several months. In addition, he borrowed money and went to Shanghai to spend exciting days with Lu Xun and many other cultural figures, but perhaps the stimulation was too strong, the worst situation was when Michiyo had an affair with an art critic. In a hurry, Mitsuharu proposes to Paris, saying, "Let's make a reconciliation trip!" Of course there is no money. The light that invites you is amazing, but the three thousand generations that follow are also three thousand generations.

Traveling abroad before the war was harsh. Hong Kong, Singapore, Java, Malay Peninsula. Sometimes water alone can help you get hungry, and board a boat to cling to cheap deck seats. Mitsuharu drew a picture for the travel expenses and managed to open a painting exhibition. I don't know how the paintings I learned when I was young will come to life here.

Finally, they arrived in Paris, the city of flowers.

Mitsuharu Kaneko who left many works. The expressive power to draw even manure beautifully was highly evaluated, and he left behind a trilogy of travel stories of "Dokuro Cup," "Nemure Pari," and "Nishi Higashi." According to his son, it was "just a crappy jijii", but anyway, young women rushed to the funeral.

Wandering after a man

wandering after a man

Area: Tokyo ("Wandering Record"), East Asia-Trans-Siberian Railway Crossing-Paris / London, Beijing, Sakhalin, etc.

At the age of 19, he relies on his college student's lover to move to Tokyo. Dreaming of getting married after graduation, she changes jobs such as a writer's maid, medicine arrangement, female worker, midwife apprentice, public bath footsteps, street vendors, and so on. In the end, he broke up with his lover, but instead of returning home, he continued to bring the manuscript to the publisher by moving to various men.

The later "Wandering Record" summarizes the days of those days. Fumiko's fortune and man's luck were devastating. Try using cabbage as a staple food, work for an actor, or be thrown away by a poet in the dirt floor. There was no reason why it wasn't interesting because such a life became a book.

Fumiko Hayashi is Japan's world-class "wandering female entertainer." There are two theories about the origin, Shimonoseki and Kitakyushu, but the person himself said that "Travel is Furusato" and "Onomichi is Furusato" ... I don't care anymore. The masterpiece is "Wandering Record", which is known to have been played by Mitsuko Mori 2000 times.

When he was eight years old, he left home as a mother and child when his father had an affair with a geisha. When he moved to a coal mine town full of workers, he helped his household by selling cosmetics and anpan. Her strength lies in the fact that the living environment of those days is not a complex, but rather an identity.

In 1931, Fumiko, who became a popular writer, set out for Paris alone. At that time, the Manchurian Incident had just happened, and in an extremely dangerous situation, I went to Korea regardless, passed through Manchuria, and jumped on the Trans-Siberian Railway. There are two reasons. One was inspired by Mitsuharu Kaneko's vitality. The other is to chase after my favorite man. In the end, I didn't fall in love, but I regained my mind and fell in love with another man.

After that, she wandered around Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Beijing, etc., and accompanied her to the battlefield as a correspondent for a newspaper company. It is said that the reason for continuing to wander was also to avoid relatives approaching with money.

Fumiko, who was once ridiculed as a "writer who sells hardships," changed her reputation after the war as "a hungry writer who is willing to do any work." And at the age of 40, he finally builds his final home. He himself reads 200 architectural books, decides on the floor plan, and asks architect Bunzo Yamaguchi for his commitment. The ideal was "a house where the north, south, east and west winds blow through." Certainly, it's perfect for her who smokes 50 cigarettes a day.    

    "Wanderingwith all the wrongdoing"

wandering with all the wrongdoing

Area: Europe

Born in Paris in 1910 to a prostitute's mother, Jean Genet is abandoned seven months after birth. "Gene" refers to Genisteae in French. Genet himself makes a joke that he can't laugh, saying, "I was blooming in an abandoned field."

Picked up by a foster parent in a rural town from a nursing home, Genet awakened to homosexuality early on and began to see God as an empty being. From the moment he became aware of it, he stole it to attract the attention of others, and at the age of 15, he was put into a psychological examination facility and escaped. After that, he moved from juvenile prison to the outlaw's elite highway.

At the age of 18, he volunteered to join the Foreign Legion. While traveling to Syria and Morocco surrounded by strong soldiers, he utters a meaningful line saying, "I knew the sweet joy that people would accept." I can't wait for my next mission. I want to go abroad again. However, it's hard to call. After being numb, Genet temporarily discharged the army and walked across France to Barcelona. He enjoys theft and male prostitution in a country of passion, but when he returns to the army, he is not satisfied every day. Travel alone again. At the same time, he will be chased by the French authorities as a deserter.He fled from Nice in southern France with a fake passport, refused acceptance and was deported everywhere he went, and traveled all over Europe like pinball. The days of love, sexuality, poverty, violence, and betrayal were later published under the name "Thief Diary" and became a huge hit. "diary that gives pleasure and violence to an old man of a male-colored family and raises money."

After that, he wandered around the prison for a while. When his arrest history exceeds 10 times, he publishes a poetry collection "Death Prisoner" at his own expense. When I sent it to the great writer Jean Cocteau with a lot of typographical errors, it was highly acclaimed. The name will be known throughout France. In 1948, he finally obtained the president's amnesty. He energetically produced novels, plays, movies, etc. until his later years, and also tackled political issues.Genet's wandering was rather deliberate, rather than unavoidable. Wearing an evil mask, he moves to operate himself with a frosty look. After all, he worshiped the prison as very erotic and was euphoric, so he couldn't stop the wrongdoing.

HenryCharles Bukowsk "Sake, Woman and Wandering"

feel away so good

Area: All over the United States

Bukowski, one of America's leading poets, spent his childhood in Los Angeles. He lived with his parents, which is rare for the type who later develops dromomania, but in addition to the abuse of his father who was a soldier, he could not make friends at all due to severe acne, so he took a leave of absence and spent every day reading a book. About those depressed days, I later said, "Damn! It is written in detail in the book "Boyhood" (By the way, Bukowski's book has an outstanding sense of Japanese titles).

The literary boy Bukowski gradually became aspiring to be a writer, but the writing environment was the worst. If his father finds him, he can throw the manuscript out of the window, and his German mother is crazy about Hitler. Soon I decide to run away from home.

Take the bus to New Orleans. The days of liquor and labor have begun. The muddy life of staying in a barracks with a bare light bulb seemed to suit Bukowski's sexuality, and for a while I spent a carefree time opening the map and moving to the appropriate location.

Eventually, it was decided that the novel that I had written steadily would be published in the magazine "Story". I can finally make my debut. When he moved to Philadelphia and drank alcohol at Gokigen, he was mistakenly arrested by an FBI agent, probably because his appearance was too wild, and he was thrown into a detention center.

In his mid-twenties, Bukowski decides to give up his dream as a writer. Stop the rough life and work as a postal worker in your parents' house. However, despite such a wish, life sways violently. Death of lover or parents, marriage and divorce. After many years of heavy drinking, he also vomited blood. Eventually, when he realized that he couldn't return to being a true human being, he tried to reopen and headed for his creative days. The word is bad

That's how the poet and the women were written. Simply put, it was a work that said, "You can have sex with such a Roku de Nashi." From his sensibility, extra decorations and literary qualities were stripped off, creating a unique style that was terrible and inevitable to laugh.

A strange life in which you write "DON'T TRY (" Stop it! ")" On your grave while staying alive as you like. People call him a "punk drunkard".

The wandering writers featured this time found commonalities such as "complex family environment," "writing poetry," and "publishing at their own expense." Some writers create their works in a small room, while others make their own works.

Many recent writers have wandering experience. Why choose a trip in this era of everything? I would love to put together a modern version someday.