CHARACTER STATS (BASIC/MAX)
精神
State of Mind
State of Mind
Somewhat Stable
攻撃
Attack
Attack
125 / 293
防御
Defense
Defense
126 / 294
回避
Evasion
Evasion
17 / 129
技術
Technique
Technique
45 / 325
天才
Talent
Talent
41 / 321
美
Aesthetics
Aesthetics
40 / 320
主題
Theme
Theme
40 / 320
真実
Realism
Realism
50 / 330
CHARACTER STATS (BASIC/MAX)
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| 精神 State of Mind Somewhat Stable |
攻撃 Attack 125 / 293 |
防御 Defense 126 / 294 |
回避 Evasion 17 / 129 | |
| 技術 Technique 45 / 325 |
天才 Talent 41 / 321 |
美 Aesthetics 40 / 320 |
主題 Theme 40 / 320 |
真実 Realism 50 / 330 |
PROFILE
「誰が活躍したとか、そうじゃないとかどうでもいい。俺に必要なのは明日生きられるかどうかだ」
人生の虚しさに思いを巡らせるニヒリスト。彼によると「生きる意味などない」らしいのだが戦闘においては生き残ることを至上命題とする。批評家としても知られており、彼の皮肉の効いた辛口な批評は他の文豪からも一目置かれていた。無神論者だが、心の何処かで救いを求めているところがあるようだ。
"It doesn't matter to me if anyone is working or not. For me, the only thing that matters is that if I could live until tomorrow."
A nihilist possessed with the vanity of human existence. According to him, apparently "there is no such thing as a meaning of life," but with regards to battle, he considers getting out alive to be of supreme importance. He is also known as a literary critic, his savage roasts having earned him a name with the other writers. Although he is an atheist, somewhere in his heart he seems to desire salvation.
Trivia
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- Born Masamune Tadao on March 3rd, 1879.
- Hakuchou was formally introduced to Christianity through the essays of Tokutomi Soho (Tokutomi Roka's brother). By sixteen, he was regularly attending sermons (to which he walked five miles for). In 1897, he was baptized. His English skills were impressive, as he strove to comprehend the Bible in earlier years.
- Hakuchou moved to Tokyo, partially to attend kabuki plays, which was considered sinful by Japanese Christians at the time (1898). He visited them with less frequency, and with guilt, due to his faith. The strictness of Christianity contributed to Hakuchou’s later disillusionment and atheism. Ironically, he was also opposed to the Christian prohibition of alcohol and prostitutes, but abstained from such later in his life.
- He graduated from Waseda in 1901. Hakuchou decided to make a living by translating Western works because he was discouraged from writing in his student days, finding his own writing inferior and dull compared to his classmates who wrote and published under Tsubouchi Shouyou’s direction. However, he started his writing career by penning literary criticism.
- Because of his critiques, he often quarreled with other writers like Tokuda Shuusei and Nagai Kafuu. Kafuu would criticize Hakuchou’s writing too, when he wasn’t replying to Hakuchou’s remarks in rebuttal. Hakuchou insisted all of his life that he liked Kafuu despite their disputes.
- Hakuchou also began drama criticism in 1904, a brief career that ended the next year when he embarrassed himself in print by misinterpreting an innocuous gift from an actor, deeming it a malicious gesture to influence Hakuchou’s opinion on the show.
- In addition to criticism and translation, Hakuchou wrote plays (40!), novels, and essays. He was known for his naturalist stories which were imbued with introspective existential questions. Christian and religious motifs were also common in his writing, which wasn’t limited to naturalism. His stories often involved fantasy, insanity, and death.
- In 1911, he married at 32 to a woman thirteen years younger than him. A few months later, he published the story “Clay Doll”, an autobiographical account of his wedding experience. He detailed his new wife as “lifeless and insufferable”. Later, he became famous for his affection and kindness to his wife, and they led a long, happy life together. The two travelled all over, visiting various countries in Europe, Asia, and America.
- It is debated whether he died a Christian or not, as he was an atheist and cynical for much of his life after his first bout with Christianity. In 1954, he compared himself with Kunikida Doppo, lamenting that he, too, wouldn't be able to pray as he died. However, in his dying days, he started accepting sermons and the words of Christ. He recounted Doppo's words again as his time came, but also accepted a prayer before his death “with a weak amen”. He died on October 28, 1962.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Robert Rolf, Masamune Hakuchō, Twayne Publishers, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1979.