Chapter 116 They have completely nailed themselves to the pillar of shame!

Chapter 116 They have completely nailed themselves to the pillar of shame!

Chapter 116 They have completely nailed themselves to the pillar of shame! (All at once, please subscribe!)

Ichiko Sadatsugu fell backwards, but this time Ishihara Shintaro next to him was quick to catch him.

"Are you okay, Mr. Ichiko?" Shintaro Ishihara asked with concern.

Ichiko Sadaji's face turned pale, and after a long while he finally uttered, "I'm fine."

He really hoped that he was okay now!

I wish I hadn’t been caught and had fallen directly to the ground. I could have pretended to faint and not have to endure the hell that followed.

Or simply never waking up, that's not unacceptable.

Unfortunately, the opposite happened. After he was helped up, countless gazes pierced him like needles.

Ichiko Sadatsugu didn't even dare to look at Takahashi Mutsuro's expression.

He and Ishihara Shintaro used up Mishima's favor to invite this former haiku master out of retirement, and after a few days of getting to know him, he had completely become their man.

He thought that Mutsuro Takahashi would be the last straw that broke the camel's back for Kitagawa Hide.

Unexpectedly, the person crushed to death by Mutsuro Takahashi was not Kitagawa Hide, but themselves!

Now, Mutsuro Takahashi had to continue his unfinished speech in the face of the most ironic scene.

Kitagawa Hideshige was harmless, as if he was completely unaware that this group of people had just scolded him and were praising the haiku master of the University of Tokyo.

He just smiled at Takahashi Mutsuro and the others, and then asked casually, "Teacher Takahashi?"

Mutsuro Takahashi's old cheeks were twitching, and everyone could see his expression as if he was about to cry.

Even those listeners who didn't understand what was going on at first gradually figured out the cause and effect of the matter.

The invited newspaper reporters discovered that this might be the biggest news in the literary world in 1995!
They all quickly pressed the shutter of their cameras, not letting anyone off the hook, and took photos of everything for later use as the cover of the press release.

Jabami Rei in the audience was laughing so hard that she couldn't stop. She even wanted to put her hands to her mouth as a megaphone and shout to the stage, "Please share your thoughts!"
At this moment, she finally understood how Kitagawa Hide felt when he was watching her "performance" in the audience, and how Agatsuma Yumeko felt when Kobayashi Tomoyo and the others shouted "Ganba Daddy" in the back!

cool!

It's so cool!
Mutsuro Takahashi, that annoying Tsuneyasu Takeda, and the guys over there who were against Parasyte and Mr. Kitagawa finally tasted the embarrassment of wanting to dig out a three-bedroom apartment with their toes!

And their social death is more complete.

At that time, Jabami Rei had only lost face in front of Kitagawa Hide and Agatsuma Yumeko, and until now no one else knew how socially destitute she was at that time.

But these people are different.

There were countless flash cameras. Professors and students from the two universities, a group of reporters invited by themselves, and more people who knew about the matter after the subsequent news was released, all mentioned this matter again and again.

They have completely nailed themselves to the pillar of shame!

Jabami Rei secretly glanced at Kitagawa Hide on the stage, feeling a little admiration and a little excited.

At first she thought that Kitagawa Hideki would go on stage after Mutsuro Takahashi had finished his performance, and then say something childish to the camera and everyone, "Actually, I am the haiku master of the University of Tokyo."

I didn't expect that Teacher Beichuan is so mean!
Go on stage right before the show starts, then sit quietly on the side and watch your mortal enemies suffer the consequences until the end!
This is too torturous!
"So, Mr. Takahashi and the others didn't know beforehand that Mr. Kitagawa was the master of haiku at the University of Tokyo?"

"Nonsense! Didn't you see their faces turned green? They just kept belittling Mr. Kitagawa and his work, but I didn't expect it to be a little funny."

"Oh no, I can't stop laughing. What should I do? Pinch me, pinch me!"

There was a lot of noise from the audience. Mutsuro Takahashi was now in a dilemma, but he knew that he only had two choices.

Either they end this literary exchange meeting directly, choose to flee in the face of Kitagawa Hide's attack, and leave the mess back to Ichiko Sadaji and others.

But by doing so, his reputation and status would still be seriously damaged, and he would completely offend both sides.

Or just go ahead and continue talking, pretending that nothing happened before.

Then he is the biggest clown today.

He used his lifelong reputation to make Kitagawa Hide successful, and then helped Ichiko Sadaji and others share the firepower.

Both choices are death choices.

But he no longer had time.

"I think that the Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo has opened up a new literary genre."

Mutsuro Takahashi finally chose to "die standing". He stumbled over the speech he had prepared countless times, but instead of using Kitagawa Hide's name, he continued to use "Tokyo University Haiku Saint" instead. This was his last stubbornness!

He slowly began to talk about the "mono no aware literature" that he had researched.

Just like the previous rogue school, Kitagawa Hidefu.

Although the Japanese literary world has lost many classic works and literary celebrities, they still have the basic appreciation ability as long as masterpieces are produced.

Kitagawa Hidefu is actually the unique Murakami style.

There is no need to say much about the rogue genre. "No Longer Human" has now become the founding work of this genre, but the author is Kitagawa Hide, so it has not been recognized by the mainstream literary circles.

In fact, there are already a lot of authors and works that have followed suit, and they have all reaped a lot of benefits.

Today, "mono no aware literature" is the most important genre and core literary thought in Japanese literature.

In the original world, mono no ai (物の哀れ) is a literary concept proposed by Motoori Norinaga, a national scholar in the Edo period.

Many people do not understand it and may subconsciously associate it with sad things such as "death" and "sorrow", and then think that Japan's mono no aware literature is tragic literature.

In fact, the true meaning of this word is the expression of true feelings.

When the human heart comes into contact with the outside world, it is moved by the scenery and the emotions that naturally emerge at this time may be joy, anger, fear, or sadness. People who have such emotions are the ones who understand "mono no aware".

People who understand "mono no aware" are similar to the "people of sentimentality" mentioned next door.

However, the concept of mono no aware literature that Mutsuro Takahashi came up with on a whim was not so systematic.

Because the reference is Kitagawa Hide's four haiku, and often sad emotions and views on life and death are more likely to make people feel a strong sense of palpitations, so he called this kind of emotion-dominated works "mono no aware literature."

Not limited to haiku, essays, novels, etc. can also be classified as "mono no aware literature".

Although they have been slapped in the face, the academic research capabilities of Mutsuro Takahashi and others are still online. With so many big names discussing together, the new literary school they have come up with is indeed very systematic.

But this crown was originally intended to be worn on the head of the haiku master of the University of Tokyo in their hearts.

Then let the Tokyo University haiku master belittle Kitagawa Hide and praise himself, and finally defeat Kitagawa Hide with better works.

What else can they do now?
Convince Kitagawa Hide to slap himself in the face?

That's stupid.

"Teacher Takahashi's sharing is thought-provoking and very well said." Kitagawa Hide put away his smile. At this moment, he seemed to have completely forgotten the conflict with the people opposite him. He actually stood up, picked up a marker, wrote "mono no aware literature" on the whiteboard, and shared his own writing experience.

There were also many people present who had heard his lectures at the University of Tokyo, and they immediately became interested.

Kitagawa Hide expanded the breadth and depth of mono no aware literature based on Mutsuro Takahashi's theory.

He is no longer confined to the emotion of sadness. As long as it can strongly stimulate people, it can be considered as mono no aware.

However, he did not deny that this clever method is easier for readers to feel. For example, Japanese paintings, music, and language like to use simple backgrounds, monotonous rhythms, etc., which is the same reason.

After Kitagawa Hide's analysis, they have a deeper understanding of mono no aware literature.

Mutsuro Takahashi and others were even more shocked.

The concept of mono no aware literature was only recently proposed by him, and no more than ten people know its detailed concept.

He was sure that Kitagawa Hide only found out about this today, and it was likely that before he spoke, Kitagawa Hide had no idea about these literary concepts.

So did he fully understand this literary concept and derive a broader definition in the short time he spent speaking just now?

"It turns out that there really are geniuses in this world." Mutsuro Takahashi looked at Kitagawa Hide's profile and suddenly became dazed.

He had previously felt that the emergence of the Haiku Master from the University of Tokyo might represent an important step in the history of Japanese literature.

After many exchanges, Ichiko Sadaji and others also admitted this.

Mono no aware literature condenses almost countless literary concepts in the Japanese literary world and can be used as a real cornerstone!
Why is he?
Why him?
After Kitagawa Hide finished speaking, he dropped the marker and the whole room fell silent, immersed in the sudden lecture that had just begun.

"Thank you for listening, I'm done." Kitagawa Hide bowed to the audience, and the others realized that the speech was over. Reporters pressed the shutter to record this precious moment.

Kitagawa Hide bowed to the crowd in the center of the stage. Behind him was a large white board and the mono no aware literature he pioneered. Entering the background board was Mutsuro Takahashi, who looked shocked, and Tsuneyasu Takeda, who looked as desperate as a clown.

On both sides there are a group of supporting actors including Ichiko Sadatsugu and Ishihara Shintaro.

At this moment, the judges of the Akutagawa Prize, the senior executives of publishing houses such as Kodansha, the right-wing bigwigs in the literary world, and literary critics all became the backdrop for Kitagawa Hide to be crowned!

This scene is destined to go down in the history of Japanese literature.

No one wants to miss this moment!
"So cool!" Qian Hehui exclaimed in the audience, her single-cell brain seemed to have not yet realized that something was wrong.

Tomoyo Kobayashi looked at Kitagawa Hide, then at Jabami Rei and Yumeko beside him, his mind in a mess.

But I roughly understand what happened.

So my two good friends have known Teacher Kitagawa for a long time?

Wait, that's not right. When Jabami-san was performing before, it seemed like
Her expression was very ugly at that time. Could it be that...
Besides her, others were also brainstorming.

Why did Kitagawa Hide suddenly become the haiku master of the University of Tokyo?
But this doesn't seem to matter anymore.

At this moment, in the first row of the special guest seats, Noma Airi glared at Kitagawa Hide and suddenly blurted out, "He, he said he was the master of haiku at the University of Tokyo, right? There is no evidence to prove that those haiku were written by him, right? The master of haiku at the University of Tokyo must be a student of the University of Tokyo."

"Ms. Noma!" Ichiko Sadaji growled.

To be honest, he wanted to tear the mouth of this young man from the Noma family apart.

He had heard about Noma Airi's personality.

But he never thought that he would have such a bad teammate!

Shintaro Ishihara didn't expect that she would be so crazy as to say such words.

But if you think about it carefully, the person speaking is Noma Airi, who was mocked as Mrs. Kaneda by Kitagawa Hide in "I Am a Cat" and who actually drove him out of Kodansha.

It seems that this is not impossible.

Noma Airi regretted what she said.

She was really a little anxious and angry, and her brain was burned by anger.

Kitagawa Hide dared to speak up and there was no reaction from the University of Tokyo, which means he was right.

Kitagawa Hide is the haiku master of the University of Tokyo.

But I just couldn't stop talking and thinking.
Kitagawa Hide responded with a smile: "I am indeed what you call the 'Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo'. 'Tanka of the Thunder God' is a haiku I wrote for my girlfriend by chance. It was posted online by Kobayashi, the head of the Haiku Research Group, by mistake. As I said just now, I didn't expect this haiku to become so popular."

“So it was written for my girlfriend?!”

"This is too romantic!"

"Come to think of it, the song 'Salad Day' also seems to be a love poem. No wonder Kitagawa-sensei's haikus tend to be romantic later on! It's so sweet!"

This has filled the gap that allowed Hideki Kitagawa to write pure literature with a romantic theme like "Youth Trilogy".

In any case, everyone is now looking at Agatsuma Yumeko and the other three, wondering who the lucky one is, and are all surprised and moved by Kitagawa Hide's romantic behavior.

Who doesn’t want the person they love to be a hero?

Although Kitagawa Hide didn't explain clearly, such as who his girlfriend was, why this happened, and why he had never admitted it, but suddenly it came up now, everyone subconsciously ignored it.

Implicit beauty is something that the Japanese admire very much.

In their daily interactions, there is an unspoken rule of "reading the air" and speaking according to the atmosphere.

Everyone quickly accepted Kitagawa Hide's answer, which left a blank, and started to imagine all kinds of things.

Anyway, they all know the most important point.

Teacher Kitagawa had been waiting for something to happen, but today he suddenly attacked, just like in "芥廾", to give those who belittled him a heavy blow!

No wonder mono no aware literature is said to be a true expression of emotions.

Teacher Kitagawa is indeed a man of temperament!

Noma Airi returned to her seat dejectedly, knowing that she had done something very stupid.

But it’s not over yet.

Kitagawa Hide glanced at the reporters in the audience and remembered that when he was giving a lecture at the University of Tokyo, a person who claimed to be a student at the University of Tokyo asked him an embarrassing question.

Now it's his turn.

He turned his head to look at Ichiko Sadaji and the others, showing a brilliant smile, and asked word by word: "Dear seniors, I have always had a question, and I hope you can answer it for me.

Just now, it seemed like everyone was harshly criticizing my haiku and my works.

I admit that my work has many shortcomings and is totally unqualified to become a classic, let alone be recognized by the Akutagawa Prize.

Someone asked me before how I felt about not being selected, and I replied that "it is the work, not the award, that will be remembered forever", and I have been working hard in this direction.

To this day, your opinion of me seems to have not changed at all.

But weird.

You belittle me, mock me, ridicule me, don't give me awards, don't recognize my achievements, but just now, you said that the 'Haiku Saint of Tokyo University' is the founder of a new literary genre and one of the irreplaceable monuments.

I'm obviously not as good as the 'Haiku Master of the University of Tokyo', right?

Then please tell me.

Are you denying my work, or are you simply denying me as a person? "

(End of this chapter)