다무라 도시코(田村俊子)의『미이라의 립스틱(木乃伊の口紅)』론 -부부의 결혼생활을 통해서 본 여성의 자립-
A Study on Toshiko Tamura's "Miira no Kuchibeni" : The women's independence from the view point of the marriage life between the couple in the transitional period towards the modern age
"Miira no Kuchibeni" is Toshiko Tamra's novel based on her own life when she was writing "Akirame". Its heroine, Minoru and her husband Yoshio spent their life in marriage, continuing conflict and reconciliation between the difference of understanding on literature and poverty. Yoshio wanted his wife to understand the value of his novels even though its bad publicity. On the other hand, Minoru was not satisfied by Yoshio who did not live his art and, she thought she needed to work because of their poverty. The husband and wife fought together because of the men's vanity from husband side and, the women's resolution, which did not let the men defeat. Eventually the battle always ended up with Yoshio beating Minoru or smashing something into her. After the fight, Minoru always cleaned up the mess, concerning about her skinny husband. She did not want to tell him a dissatisfaction. It illustrates the transitional modernity, which men did not want to change their minds and women got used to the convention to become passive in their paradoxical way of lives. Yoshio asked his wife to write a novel and it earned a first prize from a news paper. It helped financially but, Minoru thought the prize was not for her own because her husband forced her to do so. However, it made her building her own world of art. Consequently Toshiko Tamura drew the real conflict in transitional marriage to the modern age. At the same time, she attempted to emphasize the importance of expanding the women's self through Minoru who overcame her difficult situation and got independent.