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THEぉ0OF TILE )OF TEM-PYO, by YゅUBhi il咖e, liUedbyJamesTT. AraW. The UnW«rsUy oif Tokyo Press,19• 75.Pp. "0. Y1,800. HeWeWed by
DONALD IUCHIE
is "T€tni)y>ono> InUwi," forwh" ch the author received thel958 Japanese: Ministiy ofE ducat ion ;PHzさ,It is abput agroup of ]Bu, ddhist monks,《• artiOHg h卯d-reds, wholeft the caiJitaレduriTig the Nara periocTfo voyage to Ch,ang-aれ,the capitalof T,Ang ChinんTheir purposcwai to bi'in"ack Bud a hist sage, Thrs wasズin&lly acconipHshed, 20 years later when one of.theii'imin-ber, Fvjsho, v6tiuっVc^ wUh tぉひ girat moゆChien^chcm秦i'c oomincmlylaio>Vn in Japamese as
Bused upon what few r^ords remain, the novelisjm exercise in (Jdntrollゆimagination:lrean, ostensibly factual,it recounts t\yo decades o"advontm'cs with simplicity anddh'ectness. Ther<5 are no pm,pie passings, m> indulgences. The wonders of Ch'aiig-luiare not eve" dcscrゅed. Evc-Tything is properly sacrificed to the quest itsもぱ,the often hop咖-ss-seeming wanderings ofもhe monks an3 their repeated attempts to fulfilltheir Tnission.
Asゅhistoi、ica1novelit is then far different from the genie as we usuallykno、v it today. It iso pi posed to the historical romaiKjes of, say, riarvey Allen or Thoims 13. Costa hi—or Japan's owh Kenneth Koboi'ts, Ei-ji Yo3hika、va, for that maはゃi^. To use a cinematic pa raile!, the compaiison would be bc^twcen Di'e5^r's powerful"Jeapne d'-Avc" or Bresson's splendid "Lau-iicelotdu Lac" and Wainer Brothers, "Captairi Blood', or "RqIj-in Hood.', Tholatter ai'e ei,joy-able historicali'om?mcは The former make hi,toi'ylive and •autlfienticity iriim^ate.
Tl^ trianslatもr, in seeking for analogri<vs, goes into then6vejs of Robert Griav昨and even I^a* はItenagit, but surely the In歐 is betぉrihtmtliose.Am6i、e apt con)parisoiv 、vciuld. .bc'.」t.hc' only Western historical novel1know
an4 that is Marfr^6rii;eY(nu柳, fti'、 superb "Mもmcn,ies ojfHad-rian,"ぉe and Inoue sharern、iich apaucitir of sources, theiic<j4?. Ssity of histprieialfet^piistmcUpi), a scrupulous regardんr import, anレexisth)g dーU, amltheゅn-V let ion 二 thatおstory 、vas to tho; Uving it. as actuifi:れy is to us, *niis 1nouら"vel,iinllk? some of the others,おnot " perhaps conseq,t to his scnipuloiis pUhmeぉ丄allthat easy to re* ad. It is definiteiy not a rp加n-
ce t6 be pideed up and sldmiw^ ゆrough, Bjrれr^;mg us torきad 8lo\^ly and to think abput what we ai'e reading" howeyもivぉe deepens our experience and ;enlar-geきourknowledgゃ,At the,nd of Uiebook 0n&;re汰:】狄3 that one 、viU not forgもt it.
Its dばficultiesare not, certa-inly,tlie doingor the translator. H<vぎven simplばiらs Qur feading at ohe poi n1^;まleaving outlists of :svitm Utiles, and h貼:Substitu-ぉd foi' Uie fiv6"S?hai)ter sUijctu-a'e of the oHginala 21• isゆon construction which Ji>pr;ox|ma— the犯rほlかrm:tiie ,ぉぉt i)u" blie at ion. Rather, the "translation sゆ加8 as smooth and assimple
Conversations • • • (c»«t —细
to pneaihe «aU, ii y6u want it ask for it ami say "p^aae:" ""RecenUy:トniade a shocWrig discovery, this tin?e v^iUi Japanese pro nunc i at km for thewoi^d seven or "&h,dii." Someゅing in my mimi inaiぉtdd thぉt I was taujpht"Mchi" to mean seven. Yet wiien I ,ooked MP an &ncient pre-v/ar dictionary which lused in mj^ sdioo( days,rfoimdきDronuncia"oiito be "ahichi." Andl,ve been (proimcinぉれ"hic(hi" allthe yさars, an'cT Tight thi,oug"h myJa-panese.schodldays. Was it only m elwing ijn the neyer-neve+'iaiu?, orwas ita d汰i'k, conspiracy where the Japaneseehang^"hichV, to "shichi" a"rid neVertoはanyoTie.。an swnもoneteU me?
Books."
Wh" iriaぉihもtransfei'inp6れンagがessioniれTexas,,,hich it ant was thatれinspired TBS io was, we shou】d say so. We sho-
an'Bilge financing in Japan which staved off possible collapse of thやproject.、
"ibney, along;timeforもign <:q-reapoiid"nt> editor and ij)ublish:er,
whひhas wHUen two books on :r'S;e":r,〖"ぶ;i;3「Kに::;ひPanhini^琳saicJぃBrミヒnでき bookmiist have seemed atrans- , neveっ细eanyth?リ,, :latoビにpurg^ry: J冲aheselaTigu秘eeditionbefo-
:-,:、re.-
On the whole, onさwould ima曙atWrintさniatioiialed論Swe-ghi^ね,anskaor ArakiV卞re idaj^tions from the Eれglish o-.beれUでmゃly faithful to Inoue riginal.But in the Japanese vei'' though in one respect mo re fide- si。n, a third 6fthe articles, es-litymight; havもbeen exeroised. pec i ally writtenfひr it by 5000 Though the translator scolds E- scholars/are of Japaiiese origin, velyn Waugh for jHitting 20th The erne on "ai" orlove was Century colio qui a1isms in to the one of these originals, One by mouths of 4th Centui'y Romans prof. TomonobulhiainichiれfTo-in"Hもrena," what doャe fimT kyo,s University's philosophy
on page 22 of thiさvolume but: "Why make a big thing of it?,, Ido noいthink thaぃthis is what Inoue had in mind.
Ally thoughばulJforeign reader, impressed by this book,wネllw(m-dei.why he had :n6t hea^d more aboutYasushにInoue. And it is strange that the finestliving Japanese novelist is not better ktio-wn i" the West. Perhaps the reason is that, though he has ■been translated, these, 'books have been published n、ain:y in Ja-ひan.
TuUle has published a group of stories,ti'ansUted by Li ion
arid i* eligion department a J id two others, it is studded with refe-Ten(!es in a haぱdozenlanguages. In its 26,000 ch汰i'act狄s,はexamines conceptsひf.love in: the West and theおa St.
Gibney now m(ivぉto Chicago as vice president for neヽy products an a development, but will commute frequently to Tokyods vice chがrinan of TBS BHtaimica.
His first technicaldecision was 、vhet)iet the Japanese characters
uldnc^t saythさK;oi'eatv \Var was "usedもy an Americmvsh,ゃf Jforce,ぱはwas not.,,.
;Bpip^'r6r Hii.ohito'si'。lc«in the wai',ofteiV)^r,ticized by theひeft : wing, got grenerally syn^paUietic treatment iiitheaiそicle cm the liionarclv "vvriはen by a Japーse. It ixihited加t he had nmle the diecisicm to end the 、yar and that his autliority had been "used to evilpm'|)Osei)y tlie military queノ,
\yhileまing that, his individual fi'もedom to a<Jt waslimはed, it did say that had he spoken up in strong tems p由i'to the war, itheconflid; might have been avoided.
.Gibney. ci"edits thej'sales success oftheJai)anese edition to <a <k-c is ion in March1973 to appro adi possible owners through their places of business rather than their homes. Thei'csuはs were dramatic-Sales which had started off in 1972 with 5000 sets and climbed moderately to14,000 sets the next year, sky rocked to 55,000 in1974. Last ye&i',s sales reached 69,000 and 70,000 is foi'e。ast for197G. It has: .found' tha'f the biggest
wouldbewi.itten from top to
bottom (tatoginni)oroi'osswise custom€i'& for the 215,000 yen (yokogiimi), the system in some $716) package of theBri'ta〗mica, dicUonah'esにHe compromised by pius A t】as, ware salaried workers Picon, under the tiUe of "The having the main body in tate-'intheniajor businesseslike Mi-Coimterfeitei',"aTiふゅe Yokgumi汰ねd the reference guide inぉUbishi, Mi"ui and Hはachi, Goldstein tranき〗aUon of "Theyokogumi.、 what was described as ".i,elativ-
Hunting Gun"; Hara Shobo h?is4 Alarger problem was that oflylow income, steadUy emi):oy-'published John Bester, s't T纽おa- objectivity. In anぞarly memo edぉLf achievers and seぱi mi>i-o, Uon of "Flood" and E dw^rd to theおi to rialstaff of120 stud'vers."
Se,dぞnsttcker,s"Louhm,,; Kod-itsl7ひscholadya4visorもGibnゃy The Japanese BrUannica,s sales ansha hasinvblished thePunita-にsaid, "I don't wanキ.any expres- pはch was that the seぃwould
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Perhaps this beautifuledition of "TheKoof TUe of Tempyo" 、viU <ja)lWiest柳aUさnU(m to the anomaly of kn",ihgれ兮i\o-veお"essays, and plays 0f Yukio Mis!lima, and ievep having available ミn jEng"sh th"攀r】yVworks of Shiれtiaro Isliihara yet know-ingTioゅipg", as yet, :of Yasushi inoue.
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