渡边淳一是日本当代著名的畅销小说家，在他所构建的文学世界中，不乏有“为情而死，为美而亡”的故事，死亡是其小说中的重要主题之一。渡边淳一以独特的方式书写“死亡”，令其化为一种美的存在，在读者中产生了“死亡美”一说。笔者以渡边淳一长篇情爱小说中的“死亡”为契入点，采用文本细读的方法，从死亡形式与死亡意义两方面阐释死亡之美，并结合日本传统美学、社会文化、心理需求等方面解释日本读者对死亡产生美感的原因。

Junichi Watanabe is a famous contemporary Japanese best-selling novelist, in his literary world, there are many "to die for love, to die for beauty" stories, death is one of the most important themes of his novels. Junichi Watanabe wrote "death" in a special way, which makes death become a kind of beauty and produces "death aesthetics" among readers. Taking the "death" in love novels as the entry point, this paper uses the method of reading novel to interpret the beauty of death from two aspects: the form and the significance of death. At the same time, it combines Japanese traditional aesthetics, social culture, and psychological requirements to explain why death makes Japanese readers arouse a sense of aesthetics.