@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029288, author = {山田, 桃子 and Yamada, Momoko}, journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {Uchida Hyakken (1889-1971) is generally famous as an essayist or as one of Natsume Soseki's disciples. However, Hyakken's works depicting the transformation of perception have not been adequately analyzed yet. His writings paid attention to consciousness and the body, ranging from the pre-war to the post-war eras--especially at the peak of modernism from the 1920s to the 1930s. In Uchida's descriptions of flowing sight, convulsion, screaming, and absorption, his works spoke of unstable perception and the body in an attempt to depict perceptual transformations. It is through this process that the body acquires mechanical autonomy. An obsessive focus on the transformation of the self gives shape to these works. In this article, I discuss Hyakken's Triumphant March into Port Arthur (Ryojun nyujōshiki, 1925). The protagonist of this short story watches an old documentary film of the Russo-Japanese War in a university hall. The problem of the transformation of perception and the body is inevitably and deeply related to "mechanical reproduction." Of course, film is one form of this technology. The short story depicts the direct connection between the apparatus of the film and the body. The protagonist focuses on the dim images on the screen, and gradually begins to empathize with them (a face, a cloud of smoke, the bluish images of the mountains surrounding Port Arthur) while alternating through phases of absorption and distraction. In the end, wrapped up in the exultation and sorrow of the Russo-Japanese War, he enters an ambiguous space that exists neither in the hall nor in the film. The protagonist's body is constructed by various discursive and social forces, and in this article I analyze how these conflicting forces impacted the viewer in 1925.}, pages = {168--178}, title = {知覚の変容と映画 : 内田百間「旅順入城式」(1925)}, volume = {2}, year = {2011} }