Writing asymmetry? A method of arts.

Probably many of you will set a theme at first when you try to write an essay. And you will think that it’s a better way to write. That’s also what I always thought.

But I’ve changed my mind. Setting a theme is optional and you can do it without it.

Kazushi Hosaka is a fine Japanese writer. He insists that it’s unnecessary to set a theme when you write a novel. And he thinks that novels with themes are boring. If you do that in your novel, it restricts possibilities of your novel. He is radical.

The style he insists has influenced many writers who are now mainstream in Japanese literature.

Recentry, I finished reading a book called “Become a soil” written by Kyohei Sakaguchi. He also has been influenced by the way Hosaka’s. He said it in an interview in the magazine. On “Become a soil”, he didn’t worry about setting a theme, but followed his emotions and rhythm.

He lives in Kumamoto, a countryside in western Japan, and he described his life at the place of writing, painting, craft works, and farm works. He was especially interested in farm work. Looking after and observing the plants comforted him and that affected him to think about what is writing, and how to write.

Everyday, he touched the soils, plants, and sometimes played with stray cats. There are no regulations nor strict roles such as many of us have in our company life, but only natural aspects and its impermanence.

Writing is the work with nature for him. Nature has a rule, but that is different from our logic. It has the original law. He learned it from his farm and shared it in his paintings and writings.

In Eastern culture, all arts developed by observing natural aspects. In ancient China, painting was a synonymous to interpret nature. The painters did not only depicted the natural aspects but also captured its basis and philosophized it.

And in Japan, gardens were the place of meditation, composing poems, observing plants, rocks and brooks. It’s a philosophy influenced by Shintoism, Buddhism, and Chinese religious thoughts. And in Japanese gardens, gardeners avoided symmetry, because there is no symmetry in nature.

Nature is whole asymmetry, even a single stone is the same.

If you try to write an essay as an art, what do you do first? As I said above, there is a rule in nature, but that is not the logic that we have. If you try to set a theme in your writings, that is logic. Of course, we can write efficiently, if we use this method. But it’s just an option, we can choose another way.

Writing without themes is the asymmetry. There is a coincidence but not a plan. Nature has a rule but not a plan, that’s the asymmetry. We can get it from observing nature.

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