The Image of the Tiger as the Expression of Fear and Power in the Russian and the Japanese Literature

Aida Suleymenova

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The Image of the Tiger as the Expression of Fear and Power in the Russian and the Japanese Literature

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Pages:: 37–44

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880535_006

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The image of the tiger as the source of threat to all human beings is well-known among the inhabitants of Japan, China, Korea and the Russian Far East. At the same time the largest cat is the personification of the natural power and can be considered as an emperor among the other animals. The chapter deals with the contrast of fear and admiration as the two sides of this image presented in the writings of the Russian writer Nikolay Baikov (‘The Great Wan’, 1925) and in the poems of the Japanese poet Yosano Tekkan (‘Tozainamboku’, 1896). The novel of the Russian author comes from the main motive of ‘Moby Dick’ – the victory of the large animal over the silly human, but includes the descriptions of rich Far Eastern woods. The characters of ‘The Great Wan’ are the hunters who are trying to find the mutual understanding between Human and Nature. The tanka anthology (the anthology of the traditional Japanese 5-lined short poems) by Yosano Tekkan may be considered the case of deep personification of the author’s temperament. Tekkan has created the wild child – the poet and the animal at the same time; he is terrifying the reader with his howling, killing all enemies and climbing the tops of mountains. In both cases the reader comes across with two types of Terror – the real natural being in Baikov’s novel (though it is enormous and has some supernatural features) and the attempt to terrify, to be the King of Animals among human beings.

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Fear within Melting Boundaries

E-Book ISBN:: 9781848880535

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2011

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Comparative Studies & World Literature
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies

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