Why do famous Japanese writers choose to commit suicide?

The reason is the power of Buddhism. Throughout Japanese literature, there is indeed a theme of observing life through death and darkness. The story of the Peace Family sings "Prosperity will decline, and everything is impermanent", while the abbot compares secular people to "shadows in the river" and "grass in vain"

Nothingness and Matsuo Bashō's silence are also obvious. Even if we trace back to the literary origins of Tale of Genji, Pillow Grass and Ancient Stories, its "mourning for beauty",

Both "the beauty of destruction" and "the beauty of nothingness" are like mighty dark flowing water. It constitutes the grandest and deepest blood of Japanese literature. Remind the truth of life.

Kawabata Yasunari mentioned the ordinary attitude of many Japanese literati towards death in the article Dying Eyes, and quoted the painter Koga Chunjiang as saying: "There is no higher art than death, and death is life."

And Komatsu Paul even wrote a long article "The Man Who Discovers Beauty" to evaluate the calmness of Japanese writers since the Meiji Taisho era. According to him, these suicide writers showed the beauty of Japan.

The author has seen through it.

life

Choose death

As a sublimation

What's on my mind

Or mental problems

It is easy to go to extremes if you study deeply.