There was once a nun in Japan. She saw through the world at the age of 51 and chose to cut her hair into a nun. However, after he really entered the empty door, he ignored the taboos of empty doors. She not only drank big gulp and ate meat, but also said that she was addicted to male sex.
So who is she? Why did the Japanese government award her a cultural medal? What happened to her again, and why did she express her shame to China in public?
Come on, let’s walk into the life of the legendary figure Setouchi Harumi .
China Journey (First Love Obeying Traditional)
On May 15, 1922, Setouchi Harumi was born in an ordinary family running a traditional Buddhist shop in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. At that time, Setouchi Harumi was influenced by her family environment and had the same conservative concept as most Japanese women.
Haruchi Setouchi once attended Tokyo Women's University . During this period, she met her first husband. Later, under the arrangement of her father, she married her music theory teacher Jun Sano.
Jun Sano is a scholar obsessed with studying ancient music theory. Shortly after he got married to Setouchi Harumi, he was invited by Peking University in China and Beijing Normal University (formerly Fu Jen University in China), so the two came to China with a heart that was longing for learning Chinese traditional culture.
After they came to China, they not only completed their studies, but also gave birth to a lovely daughter. However, China-Japan relations changed sooner, and the news of Japan's defeat spread throughout China, and the news broke their originally peaceful life.
They deeply understand that it is very dangerous for the Japanese to stay in China as defeated countries, but Jun Sano and Harumi Setouchi are not willing to leave China. They hope that they can continue to live in this land of China, or even die here.
However, Japan once committed many crimes in this land of China, so they hid at home and dared not go out the day when Japan announced its surrender.
But what they didn't expect was that when they walked out of the house the next day, the neighbors around them were still greeting them affectionately, as if nothing had happened, and it seemed that life had not changed. So Harumi and her husband secretly stayed in China with this kind of luck mentality.
But the good times didn't last long. Japanese people like them who were secretly staying in China were soon discovered by the government, and in the end the Chinese government sent them back to Japan. After Sano Jun returned to Japan, he returned to Tokyo, Japan to continue teaching, while Seto Harumi returned to his hometown with his children. In this way, the once simple and beautiful Chinese life ended in a powerful and irreversible social context at that time.
Seto Harumi returns to her hometown in Japan and does not go out all day long, Sano is busy with work all day long. By chance, she met Jun Sano's student - Kinishi Yoshihiko , but at this time, Kinishi Yoshihiko was only nineteen years old.
His appearance opened the door to the new world, causing her heart, which was about to wither and calm, to throbbed again. It seemed that her whole body became younger and more energetic, so they developed feelings that they should not have.
In the end, Seto Harumi was unwilling to accept the long lonely waiting, and could not control her inner turmoil. Since then, she began her days of being deviant and breaking the traditional concept.
But Seto Harumi is at least a person who has received higher education in college. Although she knows that her behavior is disloyal and a betrayal of marriage, she is extremely empty inside and still breaks her moral boundaries. While hiding it from her husband Jun Sano, she secretly interacts with Kinshita Yoshihiko. She is constantly wandering in contradictions and self-blame, loyalty and love.
When Jun Sano arranged everything in Tokyo after work and was about to take Seto Harumi and his daughter to live in Tokyo, Harumi could no longer hide her feelings and told her husband that she had fallen in love with his students.
Jun Sano was very shocked by Seokami Seto's resistance and betrayal. In an instant, his emotions controlled his brain and his waving fist fell hard on Seokami. Seokami Seto saw Jun Sano who was fisting and kicking at her. She suddenly thought of her mother who was often insulted, scolded and beaten by her father.
For a moment, Harumi Setouchi felt discouraged, and the idea of rebellion and resistance suddenly rose from the bottom of his heart. The couple's relationship came to an end because of the words of the matchmaker.
One after another betrayal (very disappointment with love)
948, Seto Harumi chose to leave her husband and daughter and secretly elope with Kinishi Yoshihiko, but reality gave her a heavy blow, because Kinishi Yoshiko was still a young man with impulsive behavior compared to her.
When Kinshita Yoshihiko tasted the freshness of Seto Harumi, she soon had a new love outside without telling it. The poor Seto Harumi thought Kinshita Yoshihiko was the love she longed to find in her heart.
Unfortunately, what Harumi didn't expect was that her sincerity was nothing here in Kinoshita Yoshihiko. Shortly after the two arrived in Tokyo, Kinoshita Yoshihiko began to get bored and abandoned her, leaving Harumi without looking back.
Therefore, everything Seto Harumi gave for him was wasted. After receiving a major blow, Harumi began to feel depressed, feeling that her life was flooded with dark clouds and mist and she could not see anything.
At this time, Harumi turned her anger and sadness into words, and began her writing career. She was also hired by the "Literature Magazine" with her unique and excellent writing style. Here, Harumi Setouchi once again sprouted the buds of love because she met the third man in her life - Hitojiro Koyama.
Koyama Renjiro is the editor-in-chief in "Literary Magazine" . When they get along, they found that they not only have common literary topics, but also spiritual comfort, so their relationship quickly heats up in their daily work.
At work, Koyama Hitojiro also gave great help to Setouchi Harumi. Meeting love again was a beautiful thing, but when the two were about to fall in love and date, Koyama Tsuji Jiro told Harumi that he was not a single person and that he had married and had a wife and children.
Setouchi Harumi still chose to date Koyama Hitojiro during the hesitation choice. After getting Harumi's answer, Koyama Tsujiro excitedly carried her into her arms and lived together. With the help and guidance of Hitojiro Koyama, Setouchi Harumi won the first award in his life "Xinchao Shu Fan Magazine Award" with the help and guidance of "Female College Student Qu Ailing" . Harumi became famous in the literary circle for a while.
963, Setouchi Harumi published her second novel "Summer Center", and won the Female Literature Award. Since then, she has begun to gain a place in the literary world. But it was at this time that his relationship with Hitojiro Koyama was broken and finally came to an end.
Fate always gives people a blow to her when they think they are going on the right track, and then reveals a little bit of hope when they are at a loss.
The man Kinshita Yoshihiko, who had hurt her, appeared in front of her again more than ten years later and returned to her side. Perhaps in order to make up for the regrets in her heart, Setouchi Harumi fell into Kinshita Yoshihiko's arms again.
Unfortunately, fate is so absurd and ridiculous. There will be a first time betrayal and abandonment. As expected, Kinoshita Yinhiko hurt Harumi again.
Not only that, he also used the reputation and money that Harumi Setouchi had accumulated to develop his career. When Harumi reacted, Oshihiko Kinoshita had already cruelly abandoned Harumi with her own property and new love.
In fact, Setouchi Harumi still maintained an ambiguous relationship with Kinshita Yoshihiko when she was dating Hitomi Koyama, but she was still hurt by these men, so she wandered and wandered among various men like a woman about love. Later, she also boldly said: "The beauty of love is nothing more than having an affair, so I am very lustful, men should be careful."
Becoming a monk halfway (the unabandoned red dust)
What is not singular is that while Setouchi Harumi was frustrated, her works were also resisted by readers because the content was too secular.
She chose to become a monk because of her "extraordinary" behaviors before, so her journey to becoming a monk was not smooth. After encountering multiple rejections, with the help of her friends, she recommended Harumi to Zhongzunji to slim her hair into a nun.
973, 51-year-old Setouchi Harumi peeled off her hair and changed the Dharma name to Jiting . In this way, Setouchi Harumi disappeared into this world. Instead, she was a nun with Jiting's Dharma name Jiting.
, but what no one expected was that even though Harumi chose to slim her hair, she was still full of nostalgia for the world.
In addition to working hard for writing every day, her life has not changed much because of being a monk. It seemed that she had just changed her place to live a better life. Not only did she eat meat and drink wine, but she also said bluntly that she was addicted to beauty.
The difference is that she has less worldly worries. She can finally no longer be afraid of worldly eyes and listen to the rumors that mocked her outside. At this moment, she can finally be herself openly and openly.
Setouchi Harumi's behavior of eating meat and drinking can be slaps as he pleased was still unanimously resisted by everyone. They believed that if Harumi, as a monk, did not quit meat and fish and did not abide by Buddhist rules, he should not become a monk. Otherwise, what is the meaning of becoming a monk?
However, she not only did not correct her behavioral habits, but told these people: "When I just eat meat, wouldn't I just take off my robes? In this way, I am still an ordinary person and I will not be sorry to the Buddha. Only by wearing a robes can I be considered a real monk." Her remarks are speechless.
However, we must know that Setouchi Harumi's legendary life cannot be summarized by these experiences, because in addition to her rich private life and casual personality, she is also a well-known writer with numerous awards.
In the previous article, we already know that Ji Ting (formerly named Harumi Setouchi before becoming a monk) was born in an ordinary and traditional family in Japan who runs a Buddhist temple shop.
When Setouchi Harumi (now renamed Setouchi Ji Ting) was not in good health when she was young, so when other children were playing outdoors, she was locked up at home by her parents and kept reading. Perhaps at this time, a seed of literature was buried deep in her heart.
In a blink of an eye, Jiting successfully admitted to Tokyo Women's University . During her time at school, she met her first husband because of literature. Jun Sano, who is also keen on studying and studying the history of ancient music. But because she had to take good care of her family and her daughter to better support her husband, she was forced to give up the literature she loved during that time.
Soon afterwards, Ji Ting developed an ambiguous relationship with Jun Sano's student, Kinshita Yoshihiko, who was four years younger than her. Perhaps it was God's punishment for the betrayer. After she chose to elope with Kinoshita Yoshihiko, Kinoshita Yoshita gradually revealed his scumbag nature and betrayed Ji Ting.In disguise, Jiting chose to pick up his pen and continue to fulfill his dream of writing under the blow of love.
After several experiences of judging the silence of the Tao, she boldly wrote these events she had personally experienced into her works. Because her work "Flower Core" was rated as a pornographic novel by the public because it describes too many explicit sexual passion scenes. Since then, she has been named " Uterine Writer".
Absurd life (live out of yourself, live as others envy)
Others laugh and listen to life being absurd and unruly, she laughs at others losing themselves in life. Indeed, although Jiting was often criticized and despised by people, she truly lived out herself and became an object that people envied but could not follow.
Looking at the entire Japan, under the extremely turbulent social environment at that time, there was no one who dared to break through ethics like her, betray her husband's family, abandon her husband and daughter and elope among several men. She simply lived to be an idol worshipped by all left-behind women in Japan, but this idol only existed in the heart for a long time.
Even though Jiting's original family is a very traditional one, she is still a girl with a very personality and has been full of rebellion since she was a child. Because of the environment in which she grew up, Japanese women were still in a very humble position in society, which was a cruel reality. Jiting saw with his own eyes that most women have been treated unfairly since they were born and faced with the traditional concept of "unmarried follow the father and married follow the husband".
Jiting believes that men are not nobler than women, and women are not inferior to men. Why should women not do what men can do? Women must obey men? Perhaps it was her advanced ideas that made such an extraordinary Setouchi Jiting.
"Do what you can do today, don't worry about tomorrow's things. Even if you harvest a good fish, don't endure it and stay until tomorrow. It's only then that you can eat it immediately." This is the words in Jiting's work "Don't be trapped in the heart, don't be confused in love". She once expressed her attitude towards life - "Living is to love." That's right, she did it, and she even spent her whole life practicing it.
When she was dying, she also caught up with a social trend. She was the host of NHK and held a forum. While promoting Buddhism, she did not forget to satirize corrupt government politicians who dared not admit historical mistakes. Facing the interview camera, she talked frankly about the feelings and things between men and women she had experienced.
In 2005, her life story was changed into TV series and brought to the screen. In this regard, she also bluntly said that the content in TV series is nothing. TV series is far less prosperous than her emotional experience in real life, and that is just a small part of her life.
Return to his second hometown of China (I am sorry for China, the Japanese people are ashamed of China)
In 2002, Jiting, who was 80 years old, finally returned to his second hometown (professed to) China to hold a book press conference. After the meeting, she said in a difficult manner that she felt guilty about China.
She said that Japan's war of aggression against China back then caused the Chinese people to be deeply hurt. Over the years, she still remembers the wonderful time she lived in China. Although it was short, it was enough to recall enough for a lifetime, but she still felt guilty whenever she thought about it.
Before leaving, she specifically asked to go to Beijing Normal University, which is the previous Fu Ren University , and past memories surged into her heart. Seeing this school that was very different from before, Ji Ting couldn't help but sigh that this was her last time she came here. She knew she was old, so this might be the last time she came to China in her life.
In November 2011, Master Jiting ended her wonderful life due to heart failure.
Because of her unique personality, she has become a popular object for young people in Japan. No one doesn’t want to live like her, live with a clear conscience and self.
Jiting thought about death very openly. She once talked to her friends about her ideal way of death. She hoped that she would die on the writing desk, holding a pen in her hand and leaning against a book. As a writer, such a way of dying is undoubtedly the most appropriate way.
Even if it was a serious illness, she did not voluntarily mourn. Although she was tortured in the later treatment process, she still did not give up writing in her spare time, and did not give up her love for her until the last moment.
summary
Although Setouchi Harumi's relationship has been bumpy throughout her life, she has fulfilled her dream. From a mediocre housewife to a well-known writer, from Harumi Setouchi to Jiting Setouchi, from being addicted to the love between men and women to suddenly enlightenment, she has transformed magnificently again and again in her short and long life.
Setouchi Jiting's life is both ups and downs and magnificent. There are people who admire and admire her, and those who criticize and scold her. But for her, she just needs to live to make herself happy, because at least she has been in this world, loved, written, crazy, and prayed.
It is human nature to like the new and get tired of the old, and there is no need to avoid it. Just like no matter how delicious food is, it will be tired of eating it. No matter how many people or things you like, they will be washed away by time over time. Most people are insincere and dare not act, so a life like Jiting is not a different kind of fun-filled life.
Life has been for decades, when can I be my true self?
