Kou Reishi is a postwar Taiwanese writer who writes novels, haiku poems and essays in
Japanese. He has already published 21 selections of his works. The purpose of this paper is to analyze his novel, Sentou no Hana, and to clarify that it is supported by his highly completed expressions.
This novel has an unexpected twist at the end, and shows to the reader“ absurdity of love” by the impact of this reversal structure. This novel describes the everyday details of the life of the main characters, an old man and a woman. The narrator emphasizes continuity of their life by repeating the words,“every year”,“every day”and so on. As a result, the reader is getting to believe that their happy life
continues for ever. Towards the end of this novel, however, their life is so suddenly destroyed by the appearance of her husband that the reader is completely upset.
Moreover, the poetry the main characters make in this novel introduces vagueness into the text: this novel does not describe the feelings of the woman, and the poetry seems to mislead the reader. This is also a skillful strategy of the author.