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- Title
THE SALARYMAN AND HIS SENRYU POEMS.
- Authors
Gurita, Luminiţa
- Abstract
In the last 50 years or so Japanese studies have dedicated their attention to a particular individual whose efforts were paramount to building Japan as it is today: the salaryman. This individual is at the same time in the spotlight, and on the silent hero's spot. The salaryman, the driving force of postwar Japanese economic growth, was analyzed through economical and historical lenses in books and studies that were looking for the concealed "miracle" of Japanese development after Second World War. It is only in recent years that some studies and newspaper articles investigate the presence of salaryman in the social consciousness and his representation in popular culture. This article aims at circumscribing the salaryman in one particular manifestation of popular culture, senryu poems, written and ranked by any interested Japanese. Two categories will be then used to analyze these poems, the private life and the work life of the salaryman as shown in senryu. The image of the salaryman is afterwards compared with the representation given by economical and historical studies.
- Subjects
SENRYU; HISTORY; POETRY (Literary form); SOCIAL consciousness; POPULAR culture
- Publication
Cogito (2066-7094), 2019, Vol 11, Issue 4, p187
- ISSN
2068-6706
- Publication type
Article