天切り松 闇がたり 第三巻 初湯千両

by Jirō Asada

「武勇伝なんぞするやつァ、戦をしたうちにへえるものか」二百三高地の激戦を生きのびた男はそうつぶやいた……。シベリア出兵で戦死した兵士の遺族を助ける説教寅の男気を描く表題作「初湯千両」など、華やかな大正ロマンの陰で、時代の大きなうねりに翻弄される庶民に対する、粋でいなせな怪盗たちの物語六編。誇りと信義に命を賭けた目細の安吉一家の大活躍。堂々の傑作シリーズ第三弾。

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.

Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.

In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.

He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).