Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Ideal of Corporal Beauty: Social Construction and Personal Contribution

Abstract

inexistent in the East, very close to the concept of pornography, a kind of infinite, sensual or carnal beauty which contains a supernatural attraction. This kind of mysterious beauty, similar to a stone in which the incense has deeply permeated, can be found inside poems too. (…) And it has a filiation different from our Eastern one. The most remarkable example can be found in pornography. Our sense of elegance is far from the concept of sensuality.