国盗り物語 三

国盗り物語 #3

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬 遼太郎

美濃を征服した斎藤道三は義理の子義竜の反乱に倒れたが、自らの天下統一の夢を女婿織田信長に託していた。今川義元を奇襲して鋭鋒を示した信長は、義父道三の仇を打つべく、賢臣木下藤吉郎、竹中半兵衛の智略を得て美濃を攻略した。上洛を志す信長はさらに畿内制覇の準備工作を進めてゆく……。信長の革命的戦術と人間操縦、その強烈な野性を、智将明智光秀を配して描く怒濤編。

458 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1965

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

[Mylove4book · Rating 5 out of 5]

信長的劇情果然很輕快，比起猥瑣感很重的道三，閱讀起來舒服多了~
翻到後面一看，初版三刷，噗，果然大多數人都直接略過道三的前兩集XDD
比起狂氣的信長，司馬遼太郎果然還是比較喜歡苦幹派的光秀吧。那個時代以下犯上的那麼多人，怎麼就光秀的結局不如預期呢...不知道司馬在下集要怎麼解釋。

[Hachimaru · Rating 4 out of 5]

The subtitle of this book is "Part 2 Oda Nobunaga", however, the perspective character, protagonist, seems to be Akechi Mitsuhide, a subordinate to Nobunaga and the traitor. Maybe at first the author intended to wright the story of Nobunaga as he himself said in this story that "it's strange to myself but recently I'm fascinated with telling stories of Mitsuhide." Such a statement may be out of place for novels in general and it is said that his writing style vacillates between historical fiction and accounts, but such attributes must be his originality and one of accounts for his popularity. Anyway, this part captivate you differently from the former part.