燃燒吧！劍（下）

燃えよ剣 #2

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎, 司馬遼太郎

‧新選組主題讀物首選
‧打鬥殺陣刻劃生動
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　　自元治元年六月池田屋事件以來，新選組聲名大噪，凡是京都腥風血雨之處必有土方歲三與他的和泉守兼定。成為幕府正規軍的新選組日漸受重視，然而倒幕維新已是無法阻擋的潮流，鳥羽伏見之役，新選組的白刃不敵薩長聯軍的大砲，節節敗退。不惜灑熱血追逐夢想征服時代的歲三，憑著利劍奮勇轉戰會津若松、函館五稜郭，直到戊辰戰爭的最後戰役……。

　　與《龍馬行》並列的幕末主題顛峰作
　　大眾文化最膾炙人口的創作主題

　　自1965年《新選組血風錄》與《燃燒吧！劍》電視劇播出後，土方歲三即成為風靡大眾的歷史偶像人物，至今有近40部小說、電影、動漫等作品，如《薄櫻鬼》《銀魂》《神劍闖江湖》等知名作品皆以土方歲三及新選組為主題或創作靈感。

　　改編電影即將公開，由《關原之戰》黃金組合， 導演 原田真人＋主演 岡田准一再現幕末新選組的熱血生涯！

Genres: History, Japanese Literature

360 pages, Kindle Edition

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

[Rikuya Osawa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I could give 6 stars to this one... This is the second half of the non-fiction novel Moeyo Ken (燃えよ剣) which is a novel by Japanese author Ryōtarō Shiba. It dramatizes the life of Hijikata Toshizō, a member of the Shinsengumi, a small elite group of swordsmen that was organized by commoners and low rank samurai, active in Japan during the bakumatsu, the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867.

Ahh, such an emotional climax at the end. Its educational value is outstanding, the writing style unquestionable, and the characters (real but dramatized) so vivid and alive. I instantly became a big fan of the author who captured this one of the most important moments in Japan's long history so astonishingly well.

[Yumiko Hansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

土方歳三，其方に惚れた。

人生初めて読んだ時代物に、とてつもない感動で涙が止まらない。

[Kiyoshi Sakata]

司馬遼太郎の作品。読んでみたい

[Kiyoshi Sakata]

司馬遼太郎の作品。読んでみたい。