戦国無頼

by Yasushi Inoue, 井上 靖

天正元年（1573年）、陥落目前の小谷城には、佐々疾風之介と立花十郎太、鏡弥平次がいた。疾風之介は自分を慕う女、加乃を十郎太に預け、２人を城外へ逃がす。残った疾風之介は織田勢に斬られ瀕死の傷を負うが、野武士の娘・おりょうに助けられ、生き延びた。弥平次も一命を取り留めたが、やがて海賊の長に。一方、十郎太は共に逃げるうちに加乃に惹かれていき……。無常な争乱の世を舞台に、男女の数奇な運命を描く戦国ロマン。

313 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2013

About the author

Yasushi Inoue (井上靖) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels.

Inoue is famous for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, including Wind and Waves, Tun-huang, and Confucius, but his work also included semi-autobiographical novels and short fiction of great humor, pathos, and wisdom like Shirobamba and Asunaro Monogatari, which depicted the setting of the author's own life — Japan of the early to mid twentieth century — in revealing perspective.

1936 Chiba Kameo Prize --- Ruten,流転
1950 Akutagawa Prize --- Tōgyu,闘牛
1957 Ministry of Education Prize for Literature --- The Roof Tile of Tempyo,天平の甍
1959 Mainichi Press Prize --- Tun-huang,敦煌
1963 Yomiuri Prize --- Fūtō,風濤

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