THE DEPICTION OF SUPERHERO FIGURES IN JAPANESE FAIRY TALE

(MOMO TAROU, URASHIMA TOROU, TSURU NO ONGAESHI,

KAGUYA HIME, AND HANA SAKA JISAN)

Retno Dewi Ambarastuti

Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Brawijaya

retnodewia@ub.ac.id

Abstract

This study is a literary study used five Japanese fairy tales as the main data. The figures depicted were Momo Tarou, Urashima Torou, Tsuru no Ongaeshi, Kaguya Hime, and Hana Saka Jisan. Fairy tales are folk tales inherited hereditary from generation to generation which has good values ​​of the society. Good values ​​were depicted in the main figure which known as a hero. Five tales used in this study have different hero, both physical and character depiction. Therefore, this study aims to depict the heroes in five Japanese fairy tales, namely Momo Tarou, Urashima Torou, Tsuru no Ongaeshi, Kaguya Hime, and Hana Saka Jisan.

The method used is qualitative. The theory used is the definition of fairy tales, the technique of depicting the figures.

The results of this study on the depiction of the superhero in the five Japanese fairy tales were 1) In physical depiction, the heroes in the five fairy tales were depicted as humans with their idiosyncrasy. 2) the character depiction of the five fairy tale figures were depicted as a figure which has good character, such as helping others, reciprocating a goodness, and always being kind to others.