竜馬がゆく（二）

竜馬がゆく #2

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎

土佐の郷士の次男坊に生まれながら、ついには維新回天の立役者となった坂本竜馬の奇蹟の生涯を、激動期に生きた多数の青春群像とともに壮大なスケールで描きあげる。総発行部数2500万部超！　司馬遼太郎の永遠のベストセラーが半世紀の時を経て、電子版で新たによみがえる！

第２巻／黒船の出現以来、猛然と湧き上がってきた勤王・攘夷の勢力と、巻き返しを図る幕府との抗争は次第に激化してきた。先進の薩摩、長州に遅れまいと、土佐藩でクーデターを起し、藩ぐるみ勤王化して天下へ押し出そうとする武市半平太のやり方に限界を感じた竜馬は、さらに大きな飛躍を求め、ついに脱藩を決意する！

401 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1963

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

[Laura Mauro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vol 1 was better for the most part but vol 2 was still enjoyable. Lots more digressions in this one which occasionally made it hard to follow, but on the other hand a lot of important political and social background to the incoming civil war and regime change

[Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

8.5/10

[Vivien · Rating 4 out of 5]

wants to read again