@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029124, author = {王, 静 and WANG, Jing}, journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {In 1988, Murakami Haruki visited the monasteries in Athos and wrote several travelogues which were published as “In the Holy Mountain” in Rain, Burning Sun. Although previous research discusses the significance of Murakami’s pilgrimage, it fails to take into consideration the context in which Athos became the “new spiritual sanctuary” in the 1980s. Based on this context, this article seeks to determine why Murakami visited Athos and throws light on the relationship between Murakami and the cultural phenomenon of spirituality. The article is structured as follows. The first section will demonstrate the uniqueness of Murakami’s travelogues by comparing them with Kawamata Kazuhide’s Athos travelogues of the same period. In the next step, it shows that Murakami represents Athos as a topos of the conflict between the holy and the secular by depicting the instability of the rules of Athos’ monasteries and the diversity of the monastics. Then, the article examines the distance of Murakami and the cultural phenomenon of spirituality from a comprehensive perspective which takes both the holy and the secular into account: Murakami pinpoints the desires, the body sensations, and the discourse of the heretics and relativizes the discourse of “this side” from the Athos of “that side” as well as the mundaneness of “this side” from the belief of “that side.” Ultimately, the article argues that Murakami is fundamentally different from the cultural phenomenon of spirituality as the former emphasizes the connectedness of the holy self and the secular self while the latter leads to a segmentation of self by pursuing a “higher self.”}, pages = {168--179}, title = {聖と俗のせめぎ合い : 村上春樹のアトス巡礼記「アトス : 神様のリアル・ワールド」論}, volume = {8}, year = {2017} }