司馬　遼太郎

【著者紹介】
司馬　遼太郎（しば　りょうたろう）

【ABOUT THE AUTHOR】
Shiba Ryotaro (1923-1996) was born and raised in Osaka, Japan, and studied three languages-Mongol, Chinese and Russian-at Osaka University of Foreign Languages. In his third year there (1943), he was called up for military service, only to be involved in the prevalent absurdities of the Imperial Japanese Army until the war was over in 1945. This unforgettable experience kept him wondering what caused such irrationalities in Japan, gripping her for as long as twenty years since the beginning of the Showa Era (1925), thus inflicting a great deal of misery to many other countries. In his effort to find the answer to this undying question, Mr. Shiba traced back Japan's history. There he was to meet many interesting persons, known and unknown, who had bravely tried to improve their situations. They did so in their own inimitable way, feeding the spirit of their own times, which, unlike "that anomalous period of Japan," as he later called, were generally respectable ones, to his great relief.
In his thirties, Mr. Shiba began to write about them one by one as if trying to share his pleasure of knowing them with the growing numbers of his enthusiastic readers. By 1988 when he finished his last novel, he had written 57 novels. The Japanese Islands but also the Korean Peninsula, the ancient islands lying between Korea and Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, Russia, China, Vietnum, Western great deal of field work he did in writing these novels was to yield a huge byproduct-forty-one volumes of travel books, Kaido wo Yuku (Traveling along the Ancient Thoroughfares) that covered not only the breadth and length of the Pyrenees, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, England, Holland, France, Australia and the United States. He failed, however, to write a novel set in "that anomalous period of Japan," even if he had collected a great amount of material for it. Instead, he had written a long series of essays for a national monthly magazine, which was
later published as Kono Kuni no Katachi (What Shaped This Country: five volumes). Until the very end of his life, he never missed an opportunity to deliver his anxieties about contemporary Japan and Japanese. His meritorious efforts as a writer were rewarded with many prizes, including the Naoki Prize for one of his earliest novels (1960), the Imperial Award of the Japan Academy for Kukai no Fukei (Kukai, the Universal: Scenes from His Life) and other historical novels (1976), and the Order of Culture for his work as a whole (1993).

【リンク】
2020/05/22　司馬遼太郎記念館
 2020/05/22　司馬遼太郎プロフィール（新潮社）
2020/05/22　Wikipedia
2020/04/19　街道をゆく「オランダ紀行」（YouTube）
2020/04/19　街道をゆく「本郷界隈」（YouTube）
2020/04/19　街道をゆく「長州路・肥薩のみち」（YouTube）
2020/04/17　街道をゆく「北のまほろば」（YouTube）
2020/04/17　街道をゆく「南蛮のみち」（YouTube）
2020/04/11　街道をゆく「プロローグ　時空の旅人司馬遼太郎」（YouTube）
2020/02/18　街道をゆく「肥薩の道　蒲生」（YouTube）
2019/12/25　司馬遼太郎「太郎の国の物語」第２回青写真なしの新国家（YouTube）
2019/11/12　知ってるつもり？！司馬遼太郎（YouTube）
2019/03/29　街道をゆく「比叡山」（YouTube）
2018/05/29　司馬遼太郎「太郎の国の物語」第６回明治憲法（YouTube）
2018/05/28　司馬遼太郎「太郎の国の物語」第５回侍の終焉（YouTube）
2018/05/25　司馬遼太郎「太郎の国の物語」第４回自助論の世界（YouTube）
2017/01/09　街道をゆく「十津川街道」（YouTube）
2016/01/13　街道をゆく「郡上・白川街道」（YouTube）
2013/09/25　街道をゆく「オホーツク街道」（YouTube）