世に棲む日日 一

世に棲む日日 #1

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎

2015年のNHK大河ドラマ『花燃ゆ』の主人公は久坂玄瑞の妻、文（ふみ）。文の兄であり玄瑞の師である吉田松陰こそ、『世に棲む日日』前半の中心人物です。「人間が人間に影響をあたえるということは、人間のどういう部分によるものかを、松陰において考えてみたかった。そして後半は、影響の受け手のひとりである高杉晋作という若者について書いた」（「文庫版あとがき」より）
嘉永六（1853）年、ペリー率いる黒船が浦賀沖に姿を現して以来、攘夷か開国か、勤王か佐幕かをめぐり、国内には激しい政治闘争の嵐が吹き荒れていた。この時期、骨肉の抗争を経て倒幕への主動力となった長州藩には、その思想的原点に立つ松下村塾主宰・吉田松陰と、後継者たる高杉晋作がいた――。維新前夜の青春群像を活写した怒濤の歴史長編、ここに開幕。

286 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬 遼太郎) born Teiichi Fukuda (福田 定一 Fukuda Teiichi, August 7, 1923 – February 12, 1996) in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world.

Shiba studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages (now the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University) and began his career as a journalist with the Sankei Shimbun, one of Japan's major newspapers. After World War II Shiba began writing historical novels. The magazine Shukan Asahi printed Shiba's articles about his travels within Japan in a series that ran for 1,146 installments. Shiba received the Naoki Prize for the 1959 novel Fukuro no Shiro ("The Castle of an Owl"). In 1993 Shiba received the Government's Order of Cultural Merit. Shiba was a prolific author who frequently wrote about the dramatic change Japan went through during the late Edo and early Meiji periods. His most monumental works include Kunitori Monogatari (国盗り物語), Ryoma ga Yuku (竜馬がゆく; see below), Moeyo Ken, and Saka no ue no kumo (坂の上の雲), all of which have spawned dramatizations, most notably Taiga dramas aired in hour-long segments over a full year on NHK television. He also wrote numerous essays that were published in collections, one of which—Kaidō wo Yuku—is a multi-volume journal-like work covering his travels across Japan and around the world. Shiba is widely appreciated for the originality of his analyses of historical events, and many people in Japan have read at least one of his works.

Several of Shiba's works have been translated into English, including his fictionalized biographies of Kukai (Kukai the Universal: Scenes from His Life, 2003) and Tokugawa Yoshinobu (The Last Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 2004), as well as The Tatar Whirlwind: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia (2007).

(from Wikipedia)

Alternative Names:

Fukuda, Teiichi
Ryotaro, Shiba
Shiba, Ryoutarou
Ryoutarou, Shiba
Sima, Liaotailang
司馬遼太郎
司马辽太郎
Shiba, Rëotaro
Шиба, Рёотаро
司马辽太郎
司馬, 遼太郎
司馬遼太郎
司場遼太郎