The Family Ethical Narration in Yamasaki Toyoko's Novels

Abstract

During over 50 years of literary career, Japanese writer Yamasaki Toyoko has drawn works and devoted herself to literary creation. Her work encompassed a wide array of themes, a large span of time and space, and a large number of characters. Yamasaki's writing approach is not the same as the traditional Japanese watakushi shōsetsu writing paradigm, where she explores human nature, ethics, culture, etc. with realism. Narrative techniques are utilized by her to convey the thinking and exploration of diverse ethical relations and social problems. The novel by Yamasaki exposes the distortion of Japanese family systems in terms of family ethics and morality. While pondering traditional family ethics, she also expressed her desire for a harmonious and healthy family ethical environment. The paper focuses on the writing of family ethics in Yamasaki 's literature with ethical literary criticism and narratology, hoping to rediscover the literary value of her novels from the standpoint of ethics and morality.