Komurasaki. Legenda i jej wieczni kochankowie

The focus of the paper is the analysis of the story about the courtesan Komurasaki and the samurai Shirai Gonpachi. The story, recurring in Japanese literature, appears also in Czech literature – the writings of Juliusz Zeyer – and in Polish literature of the turn of nineteenth century. The analysis will focus mainly on two works: Wacław Sieroszewski’s Miłość samuraja and Władysław Reymont’s Komurasaki. Żałosna historya o pękniętem porcelanowem sercu japońskim.