Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 202: Crying Blood
Ryukawa Toru has always looked down on him, and Ichiro Obi knows it.

He doesn't get angry when he catches you and says something bad about you, but he turns a blind eye when you provoke him in person.

This young man often looked at himself with contempt, and referred to himself as "censor" or "small-tail censor".

Don't consider yourself a senior, or even a scholar.

Taro Oo's current expression means that literature is not just about novels, there is also "Snow Country".

Haiku, as a pearl in the field of pure literature, requires a level of skill and accomplishment that young people like you cannot grasp.

“I don’t really understand.”

Ichiro Oobi patted Ryukawa Toru's shoulder with a stern smile. The title of teacher is used only when one realizes that the gap between the two sides is too big.

Longchuan Che picked up the poem sign on the table and took a look. It was two fingers wide, and the handwriting on it was small regular script with the words "three strokes at the end of the curtain", in the style of the "Thousand Character Classic" in the scroll Linghu script.

Ichiro Obi has good handwriting and literary skills. Ryuukawa Toru doesn't understand why the other party seems to hate him.

"You do not understand?"

At poetry gatherings, most people who come want to write poetry.

Originally, it didn't matter whether the writing was good or bad, but Ichiro Obi, who was praised today for his unique insights into the "sketching method", seemed not to let Ryukawa Toru go.

After this haiku that broke the saying of "difficulty" came out, Ichiro Oo showed extremely high insights, incorporating the new into the old, and writing modern things such as trains and editorial offices into his haiku.

The road is low, the wild geese are flying, and it’s a moonlit night
One Habitat Editorial Bureau May Rain
One page of wine's bee

The writing is very original and interesting, but the other party seems to be targeting me all the time.

Before they met, he said that he was not worthy of being on the judges' panel, and even after they met, he was secretly trying to be better than him.

Join forces with others to isolate and magnify flaws.

I was happy to see that Longchuan Che was suspended.

"Because the old tree is dead and the new buds are just sprouting."

Ichiro Oobi held Ryukawa Toru's wrist and stood beside the table next to the observation deck. If you didn't know, you would think that the two of them were good friends.

"So what if you are a young talent? You can write novels and haiku."

There is a group of people who adhere to a strict concept of seniority and inferiority, and are more enthusiastic about suppressing newcomers than doing thorough research themselves, because they think that suppressing those famous young people can improve their status in the circle.

So what if Longchuan Che is in the limelight? In some aspects, he still has to call me teacher, right?

When Xiaowei Yilang was thinking this, Longchuan Tetsu picked up a poem stick and wrote on it:
(Twelve-story five-story summer no two)
The font was brisk, written in running script. The jet-black ink looked like an ink dragon on the slightly yellow bookmark. Shirakawa Taketo, who was standing by, was stunned for a moment and took the poem sign.

"This poem?"

Shirakawa Taketo picked up Ryukawa Toru's, and then picked up Obi Ichiro's next to it.

“Written.”

"Shameless!"

Ichiro Obi's face turned red with anger.

He was the first to add modern scenery to poetry and haiku and to use the sketching method.

For example, railways, editorial departments, and last time at Kodansha he also cleverly used the concept of replication.

But now Ryukawa Tetsu has also added this 'new view' to his poem.

The five-story building is twelve feet high, and Ryukawa Toru wrote about it to give the feeling of skyscrapers being one after another.

Although it is well written, Ichiro Obi thinks this is a form of defense, plagiarism, and...
"Shameless!"

Oobi Ichiro was so angry that he cursed again.

"Don't make any noise."

Shirakawa Taketo glared at Oo Ichiro. The haiku by Ryukawa Toru looked similar to Oo Ichiro's, but in fact it expressed completely different things.

There are many modern scenes in Oo Ichiro's haiku. Although there are also "new scenes" in Ryukawa Toru's haiku,
"Fujimine, if I remember correctly, Ryukawa is from Yamanashi Prefecture?"

Standing on the top of Mt. Takao, the weather is clear today.

Looking to the south, you can see the blue Shonan Coast, a little to the side, you can see the bustling Tokyo, and a little to the west, you can see Mount Fuji surrounded by mountains.

"A famous place that has appeared frequently in ancient tanka and haiku, the song pillow." Ryukawa Tetsu put down his pen and patted Oobi Ichiro on the shoulder.

“Although new scenery is beautiful, the old things should not be completely forgotten.”

Fujimine is the most common pillow in haiku tanka.

It is the oldest scenic spot in Japan and one of the views that can be seen from Mt. Takao.

The boy simply thought about it and combined the new scene with the old things based on what he saw and heard, and blended them into a sentence "Natsu no Fuji is on the fifth floor of the twelve-story building."

There is a collision of the old and the new, as well as ancient scenic spots.

No matter how high the majestic Mount Fuji is, it cannot be taller than the newly built skyscrapers.

This poem not only describes the two most conspicuous giants that are unforgettable and gone, but also seems to reflect that the old era will eventually become lonely, the old people will die, and the new people will be taller than the previous one.

It seems like he is talking about haiku, and also like he is talking about him and Oo Ichirō.

"Shameless boy!"

There was so much covered in one short poem that Ichiro Oobi's face turned red with anger.

Longchuan Che's poem is well written, but its ironic meaning is even stronger.

The ancient singing pillows cannot compare to the new buildings.

Ichiro Oobi felt like he was being implied.

"Stop it."

More and more literati went up to the observation deck, and Shirakawa Taketo pulled over and wanted to talk to Ryukawa Toru about Oo Ichiro again.

Ichiro Oobi regarded the "sketching method" and "new scenery" as his second spring in the literary world, and he was very unconvinced when he was outdone by others.

"I have nothing. You took up the Youth Award of the Ministry of Education and yet you look down on me."

Oo Ichiro's face flushed, and he heard the discussions of the people around him about the two poems.

"Obi's [39 million people in spring] has realistic sketching, but the connotation is not as good as 'The fifth floor of the twelve-story building is full of summer'."

"Based on these two lines of poetry alone, Longchuan Che can be regarded as the pioneer of Xiaowei."

Everyone opened their eyes and realized that Ryukawa Tetsu's poetry was on a higher level than Oo Ichiro's. How could Oo Ichiro, who wanted Ryukawa Tetsu to call him "master", bear this?

"The core of the 'sketching method' is to observe and depict nature in the most direct way. His method completely falls back to 'Jiao Feng'."

In order to refute the opinions of the people around him, Oo Ichiro gritted his teeth and said.

Longchuan Che's poems are too heavy, completely losing the descriptive and natural nature of the "sketching method".

One layer of poetry contains three layers of meaning. It is not like "Zigui" but more like a haiku sage.

"It's enough!"

After writing the poem, Ryukawa Toru pulled Takeda Maki down the mountain. Shirakawa Taketo grabbed Oobi Ichiro who still wanted to argue.

“He doesn’t use life drawing because he doesn’t need to.”

Shirakawa Taketo had a complicated expression. The method of sketching was very important to people like Oo, but it had no effect on the young man who could easily write "The fifth floor of the twelfth floor is full of summer".

Banana painting emphasizes elegance, while sketching emphasizes depiction.

Longchuan Che's poems can be both "elegant" and "sketchy".

On the way up the mountain, Ryukawa Toru told Shirakawa Taketo that they each got what they needed, but the old man didn't think that was entirely true.

Ryukawa Tetsu can follow the elegant style or the new style of "sketching from life".

The sketching method was his gift to people like Ichiro Oobi, and to those writers who were not good at writing with "elegance and sincerity".

"He is Zigui."

Shirakawa Taketo glanced at the noisy middle-aged scholar.

"You begged me three times to see his 'Zigui'."

(End of this chapter)