うつほ物語

by 室城 秀之

異国の不思議な体験や琴の伝授にかかわる奇瑞などのローマン的要素と、源氏・藤原氏両家の皇位継承をめぐる対立を搦めながら進行するスケールの大きな物語がはじめてわかりやすい形になった。

275 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2007

Reviews

[Yuna Hamada · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was very interesting story. This story was about a men and men's family in Heian period. Men was very smart, and he was allowed to go to that time's China to study more. However, a ship that men went on didn't go China sucsesfully, and he landed on a place that he doesn't know. At there, men learned 3 different ways to play them. After he went back to Japan, he teached his daughter how to play koto. Men got 12 kotos, and he kept 2 of them, called Nanfu and Hashihu, secret and left Yadomorikaze at his house. Men's koto was called Hosokaze and he gave Ryukakuhu to his daughter. Men gave Setakaze to emperor, Yamamorikaze to Queen, Hanazonokaze to Tougu (boy who is going to be emperor next), Miyakokaze to Tougu's partner, Katachikaze to Tadatune, and Orimekaze to Chikage. After men's daughter grew and men died, men's daughter teach her son how to play them. In the story, they says their traditional thing, playing koto, is getting better and improving by passing on to next generation. This book was easy to read because it had sentences translated into Japanese that we use nowdays, then original sentences, then finally, explains what did that sentence means.