The New Sun

by Yashima, Taro; Shibusawa, Naoko

• ISBN13: 9780824831851
• ISBN10: 0824831853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

"In 1939 the painter Iwamatsu Jun (1908-1994) and his artist wife, Tomoe, arrived in the U.S. as political refugees. During World War II, Iwamatsu used his artistic talents for the U.S. war effort, and he adopted a pseudonym, Taro Yashima, to protect this young son, whom he left behind in Japan. The New Sun, which was published in the U.S. in 1943, is an account of his life in prewar Japan." "In its depiction of ordinary Japanese, The New Sun is both an indictment of Japanese militarism and a plea for American understanding of "the enemy." Told mainly though Yashima's powerful artwork, it is a personal and political text of a rural doctor's son who becomes an anti-imperialist artist-activist. Yashima recounts how his wife and their peers were imprisoned and brutalized by the Tokkoka, Japan's secret police, often for months without being formally charged or knowing when they would be released. Despite the arbitrary deprivations and cruelties of life in prison and in imperial Japan, Yashima retains faith in the regenerative possibilities of art and in a future without tyranny."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
The Sunny House	p. 1
A Bunch of Daffodils	p. 13
The Cave	p. 27
Guards and Prisoners	p. 51
Tokkoka	p. 77
Personal History: First Ambition	p. 93
To Be a Painter	p. 113
Where Are We Going?	p. 129
The Artist Belongs to the People	p. 155
The Flag in the Storm	p. 177
The New Reality	p. 199
Bad Dream	p. 223
Jail News	p. 241
One Bottle of Milk	p. 261
People of Tomorrow	p. 277
The New Sun	p. 297
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