#ibuse

[fairyluffy]

Naruto 30 day challenge

day 24: least favourite summoning animal- ibuse

[all-naruto-polls]

Which animal would you like to make a summoning contract with?

Gamabunta & the toads/ Katsuyu & the slugs/ Manda & the snakes/ Enma & the monkeys/ Baku/ Ibuse & the salamanders/ Giant Clam/ Kamatari & the weasels/ Ninken/ Crows

Which animal would you like to make a summoning contract with?

Gamabunta

Katsuyu

Manda

Enma

Baku

Ibuse

Giant Clam

Kamatari

Ninken

Crows

Voting ended onAug 2, 2023

[anonymouscreampuff]

hanzo appreciation also means ibuse appreciation!!!! 😡 🦎🌧️

[anonymouscreampuff]

absolute baby hours

[bsd-bibliophile]

    “Memories” may have been intended as the testament of Tsushima Shūji, sometime university student and Communist party sympathizer, but it marked the birth of Dazai Osamu. He apparently decided to use this pseudonym after a meeting with Ibuse in January 1933. He also decided at this time the title of his first collection of short stories, Declining Years. “Memories” was the first work by Dazai to elicit praise from Ibuse, who wrote:

I was much impressed by your most recent manuscript. It represents a marked change from the previous ones. It is written with an objective, critical eye. In any case, “Memories” is first-rate in execution. From now on you should be able to attend the university in good spirits and at the same time continue to write stories with sufficient self-confidence. If you have time enough to visit me, it would be much, much better spent in reading one page or even half a page of Tolstoy or Chekhov. Write as much as you can, and so as not to get exhausted by writing, attend school every day.

    Ibuse’s praise undoubtedly encouraged Dazai, but he did not take the advice about faithfully attending the university. “Memories” was published in three successive issues o the recently founded literary magazine Kaihyō (Sea Lion), which had published Dazai’s story “Gyofukuki” in its inaugural issue in March 1933.     “Memories,” one of Dazai’s most affecting works, contains its share of masochistic details, but there is also a note of hope in his determination to become a writer: ‘In the end I discovered a safety valve, a miserable little safety valve - writing. In this, there were many like me, I could sense all concentrating like myself on their crazy palpitations. I prayed secretly, again and again, “May I become a writer! May I become a writer!”’

- Donald Keene, Dawn to the West, page 1038-9

"In the end I discovered a safety valve, a miserable little safety valve - writing. In this, there were many like me, I could sense all concentrating like myself on their crazy palpitations. I prayed secretly, again and again, 'May I become a writer! May I become a writer!’“

- Dazai Osamu

[bsd-bibliophile]

In the summer of 1930 Dazai visited Ibuse Masuji with the manuscripts of two stories. Ibuse recalled twenty-five years later that Dazai wrote him saying he would kill himself if Ibuse refused to meet him. Ibuse naturally consented, and Dazai soon afterward appeared at the publishing company where Ibuse worked. He insisted that Ibuse read the stories on the spot. Ibuse read them, recognized the influence of one of his own stories, and bluntly told Dazai that the stories were no good. He urged Dazai to read the classics, rather than worthless fiction, if he intended to become a writer. Dazai had chosen Ibuse as his mentor because he had enjoyed Ibuse’s writings ever since he was a boy of fourteen. He later even induced Ibuse to contribute a story to his high school magazine. After the meeting in 1930 Dazai continued to send Ibuse stories, and when three or four had accumulated would pay a visit. He probably hoped that Ibuse would recommend publication to a literary magazine, but Ibuse never vouchsafed a word of criticism. Instead, he once again recommended that Dazai read Pushkin, Chekhov, Proust, and other major European writers. Dazai’s reading of Evgeni Onegin provided direct inspiration for writing “Memories.” Perhaps in the hope of strengthening their ties, Dazai initially urged Ibuse to become a left-wing writer; Ibuse, refusing, urged Dazai in return not to become one.

Donald Keene, Dawn to the West, page 1038

[bsd-bibliophile]

He was rather weighed down at the moment, perhaps by the uncertainty of existence.

Ibuse Masuji, “Old Ushitora” from Lieutenant Look East and Other Stories

[bsd-bibliophile]

Nobody, I imagine, likes making absurd comparisons between himself and other things. Only to a man whose heart is wrung with grief would it occur to liken himself to a scrap of tin.

Ibuse Masuji, “Salamander” from Lieutenant Look East and Other Stories