Why the Aesthetics of Death Recur in Japanese Literature

What does the aesthetics of death in Japanese literature really say and express to us.

The Japanese have never stopped thinking about life and death.

Mentioning this topic, I also have to start with the animation film director I admire the most, Imaaki, as a quotation (high energy warning ahead, there are superb spoilers about "Millennium Actress")

In August 2010, Imaaki died of pancreatic cancer in Tokyo, Japan.

On the day of Imazumi's funeral, the ED of "Millennium Girls" was played, and I think it was the most appropriate ED for the scene, which shows that Imazumi used "Millennium Girls" as a message and throughout his life.

Chiyoko has spent her whole life interpreting the meaning of "pursuit" itself, not only Chiyoko's pursuit of love, but also Imazumi's pursuit of pure art.

At the age of 47, Imabu died at the peak of his splendor, but his splendor lives on and is permanently framed, and there is no downward slope or death in his life.

I will lay down my pen with gratitude for all the good things in the world. I will take my leave."

Immin left quietly, low-key and calmly, casually but without dragging, and every night before I fell asleep I always pondered, if every time when I fell asleep, Immin, the dream-maker, was not weaving one beautiful dream after another in the sky for the whole world?

And what about the aesthetics of death in Japanese literature, listen to my editor and you slowly explore.

Death and beauty are entwined throughout classical Japan, so they are inextricably linked in classical Japanese literature, but Japan, which experienced World War II, has split death and beauty.

Audiences who know the modern Japanese literary tradition will know that the rogues and Yasuo Sakaguchi's The Theory of the Fall point to the ideologies to which Japan has attached itself since ancient times in order to overcome the fear of life and death, which in fact is a kind of evasion, an evasion of the responsibility that must be borne by life on earth.