新選組血風錄 下

新選組血風錄 #2

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬遼太郎, 高詹燦 (Translator)

文久三年，江戶幕府親自召募二百三十四名浪人，起初名為「浪士隊」，之後改稱「新徵組」。
表面上保護人在京都的將軍，真正的任務卻是追捕高喊尊王攘夷的浪人。然而只在京都停留了二十天，幕府便下令回歸江戶。
兩百多個失望而歸的劍客從此沒沒無聞；近藤勇、土方歲三等十三人卻堅持留在京都，而且就在不到一個月後，便創建了後來驚動天下、殺人如麻的「新選組」。

只不過，雖然新選組幾度召募天下英豪，隊中高手如雲，橫行京城，卻也因此潛藏權力鬥爭，內部整肅同樣殘忍無情；犯了隊規的新選組員，不是自行切腹了斷，就是遭到自己人埋伏暗殺。
在清水寺的櫻花樹下、藝妓往來的祇園路上、月影映照的鴨川灘邊，司馬遼太郎以史家之筆，寫下一篇篇絕世高手生死立判的雷霆對決……

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

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

Reviews

[Ally Yang]

【taaze 訂180 -得117】

[PH · Rating 4 out of 5]

「所謂的武士道，便是男人應奉行之道。真正的男子漢理應如此，它就是如此剛烈的獨特美學。」

[TG Lin]

我對日本歷史不熟，所以偶爾會撈些熱門的歷史主題的書來看。
　
聽說日本對於自己歷史最有興趣的兩段，一是戰國、另一則是幕末。戰國史，拜光榮這家遊戲公司與 NHK 之賜，我個人也略懂略懂。但幕末史，和戰國史最大的不同，是「故事主軸線」太過凌散混亂。戰國時代，遵著幾個大大名、與寥寥可數的幾個家族經歷，整個時代圖像就差不多可以建立起來了。而幕末呢，則是每個人好像都參與那麼一點點、每個勢力都沒有太大的決定性，然後故事便直接邁入終點了。
　
這本由司馬遼太郎所寫的小說《新選組血風錄》，是由一小段一小段的短篇故事連綴而成，有點像是《史記．俠客列傳》那種方式，打破時間順序，每篇都是由一位新選組的隊員作為主角，以故事的方式介紹了這個神奇的（黑道）半官方組織「新選組」的建立與發展過程。基本上，這比較像是一種「單元劇」的表現方式。由於我對幕末相當陌生，所以這部小說對我而言是挺適合作為入門的媒介。司馬遼太郎說故事的功力十分平易近人，每一段的主要角色都有它的主旨故事線，相當吸引人。
　
雖然這是我早已經具有的偏見，而本書的故事，恰好又再予以證實並加強這方面的印象。大凡一群在體制外搞革命的組織，它的運作方式與性質內容，通常都不會像樣板戲那樣的高尚與光彩。這部《新選組血風錄》裡頭寫到，雖然他們砍殺了不少聚集在京都裡的倒幕浪人，但實際上，這群組員們彼此之間的內鬥殺戮事情，完全不少於對抗外部的敵人，可以說「內鬥」重於「外鬥」——這才是真實世界運作的真相。所謂同心對抗外敵的理想，是給那群沒有實力的人過過乾癮的香料，而香料是毫無營養的東西呀。
　
因此本書大部分的故事，多是聚焦在這群黑道俠客之間的恩仇互鬥，尤其是在〈虎徹〉一篇裡讓他們聲名大噪的「池田屋事件」，用近藤勇對寶刀的偏執，帶出這種重大械鬥的過程，故事處理得相當精彩。不過讓我眼睛一亮的，還是本書所收錄的〈彌兵衛的奮戰〉中，有小一段描寫到薩摩藩士西鄉和大久保對新選組的態度︰
　
他們兩人此時正與朝臣岩倉具視暗中策劃，要上演一齣驚天動地的大事……就他們這些高格調的人來看，那些以殺人為樂的傢伙，層次實在太低，他們根本就不屑一顧……（下冊．頁 224）
　
值得一看的書。