壬生義士伝（上）

by Jirō Asada

小雪が舞う一月の夜更け、大坂・南部藩蔵屋敷に、傷だらけの侍がたどり着いた。貧しさゆえ南部藩を脱藩し、壬生浪（みぶろ）と蔑称された新選組の隊士になった、吉村貫一郎であった。その剣の冴えは“人斬り貫一”と京の都で恐れられ、一方、極度の倹約のため守銭奴と蔑まれた男には、まったく異なる貌もあった。元新選組隊士や教え子たちが語る非業の隊士の生涯から、血なまぐさい時代にひとすじに生きた「誠」の人生が浮びあがる。03年映画公開。浅田次郎、渾身の名作！

386 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2002

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).

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