芥川龙之介中国游记中的苏州形象

Images of Suzhou in Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Travels in China

大正时期,日本近现代文坛的核心人物芥川龙之介来到中国,并将旅行的印象和感想用游记的形式发表出来。芥川的中国游记带有明显的殖民主义思维,但芥川的中国之行,特别是对苏州之行的记录,很大程度上反映出有着浓厚古典汉学文学素养的芥川,对日本欧美化反思的内在需求,是芥川探寻传统、回归本我的重要媒介,是探寻传统诗画家园的精神之旅。

During the Taisho Period,Ryunosuke Akutagawa,the key figure in modern literary circles of Japan,visited China.After returning to Japan,he published his impressions and feelings about the trip. The travels took an obvious tone of colonialism.However,his records of China,especially about Suzhou,showed his inner need to reflect on Japan's westernization. The travels is an important medium for Ryunosuke,who had a strong literary attainment of classical Sinology,to explore the tradition and to return to the true self. It is a spiritual journey to find the homeland of traditional poetry and painting.