新選組血風錄 上

新選組血風錄 #1

by Ryōtarō Shiba, 司馬遼太郎, 高詹燦 (Translator)

文久三年，江戶幕府親自召募二百三十四名浪人，起初名為「浪士隊」，之後改稱「新徵組」。
表面上保護人在京都的將軍，真正的任務卻是追捕高喊尊王攘夷的浪人。然而只在京都停留了二十天，幕府便下令回歸江戶。
兩百多個失望而歸的劍客從此沒沒無聞；近藤勇、土方歲三等十三人卻堅持留在京都，而且就在不到一個月後，便創建了後來驚動天下、殺人如麻的「新選組」。
只不過，雖然新選組幾度召募天下英豪，隊中高手如雲，橫行京城，卻也因此潛藏權力鬥爭，內部整肅同樣殘忍無情；犯了隊規的新選組員，不是自行切腹了斷，就是遭到自己人埋伏暗殺。
在清水寺的櫻花樹下、藝妓往來的祇園路上、月影映照的鴨川灘邊，司馬遼太郎以史家之筆，寫下一篇篇絕世高手生死立判的雷霆對決……

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1964

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

[Jack Hwang · Rating 4 out of 5]

司馬遼太郎寫這失敗的一群人，不揚舉、不悲憫，因為他們走上這條路，主要還是為了權勢地位金錢。在時代變遷之際（從黑船來航至明治維新短短數年），嘗試抓住一個三百年來首次出現的機會。時代變遷給他們帶來了機會，時代變遷也將他們淘汰。

[Ally Yang]

【taaze 訂180 -得117】

[PH · Rating 4 out of 5]

重看〈留著前髮的惣三郎〉。