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The research of “Sanshiro”, “And Then”, “The Gate” by the aspect of “love novel” is very common. However, if we carefully examine the content of “Sanshiro”, we can find that it is full of the characteristics of painting. There are many painting works, main characters with the ability of painting, real and fictional painters, and beautiful scenes appeared in these three novels. Especially, the demonstrate of the painting “The women of forest” at the end of the novel “Sanshiro” in deed reveal the atmosphere of painting. Therefore, the novel “Sanshiro” is thus called a “painting novel”.Consequently, in this thesis, we analysis these three novels by the aspect of painting with three topics: “real painting works”, “painters”, and “beautiful scenes”. From the analysis of “real painting works”, we can find that the three main male characters, Sanshiro, Daisuke, and Sosuke, have different ability of art training and the change of mentality, respectively. With these three novels appearing in order, the presence of these three main characters can reveal that there are fewer and fewer foreign painters but more and more japanese painters in the novels. Besides, we can also observe the differences in the concerns of the art, family background, and changes of the roles of these three main male characters.Finally, the “painting scenes” are written mainly by the description of women and some of the scenes near the houses seen by the three main male characters. From these scenes, we can conclude that these scenes are strongly dependant on the loves between the characters. Therefore, from the analysis of this thesis, we can also conclude that there is not only “love” can run through these three novels but the aspect of painting can be much better reveal the relationship between them. On the other hand, painting can be viewed as the key of strengthening the relationship between these three novels.
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