Япония: цивилизация, культура, язык 2022

«ISSUES OF JAPANOLOGY, vol. 9» St-Petersburg State Univ 2022 237 but the woman refused to show him the way out of that bewitched place shrouded in mist from morning till night. Then teacher S. decided to kill her. There was a fight during which the young man gave the woman a deadly wound. Before dying the hostess of the house told him that she was not Ishinome but his mother who had been driven from the house at some time because she had been keen on photography more than on caring about her little son. Deprived of her parental rights the young mother who was not allowed to see her child left for the mountains many years ago where she met real Ishinome. They became friends and quit the world of troubles together. It seemed that when being human yet Ishinome had gone to the mountains under the similar circumstances. Once the mother of the principal character made a photo of her friend with a Polaroid camera and gave her the photo. Nobody suspected that Ishinome’s look did not lose its deadly power even in pictures, and the amazing creature petrified herself. After her death the mother of the principal character continued what Ishinome had been doing by showing her photo to everybody who approached the house and guarding herself by such murders from intrusion of the civilized world that had long become so alien to her. Here one should note the way gone by the young Japanese woman “from a photographer to a killer”: the woman’s refusal from her traditional role, which entailed a chain of tragedies in the form of deprivation of parental rights and rancor aggravated by the meeting with the monster that taught her to kill taking revenge against one and all. Thus, the woman acquires force through crime again; being a positive character she was unable to fight and remained obedient to circumstances; she started finding satisfaction only by killing others.