『北天の星』『花渡る海』『雪の華』の 種痘三部作というのもあるようで、このうち、前二作は北の海に関係した作品でもあるもよう。これはぜひ読まなくては。それから、『三陸海岸大津波』も興味あるタイトルだな。３１１前に書かれた作品か…。
With that in mind, when I looked at Wikipedia's "Akira Yoshimura" > "6 Main Works" again, I found "Choei Escape" and "Sakuradamongai Incident" set in the late Edo period. Also, marine survival things such as "drifting" and "ship breaking" may be interesting.
Furthermore, when I look closely at the list, "Steller sea lion", "Nikolai Distress", and "The Group of Fish Shadows" seem to be related to the Northern Sea. In other words, there were still works similar to "Sea Festival" and "Rinzou Mamiya".
Also, there seems to be a vaccination trilogy of "The Star of the North Sky", "The Sea Crossing Flowers", and "The Flower of Snow", and the previous two works seem to be related to the northern sea. I definitely have to read these works. Also, "The Big Tsunami over Sanriku Coast" is an interesting title. It's a work written before 311….
この人の作風はかなり参考になるのでーーというのも、気質的（≒星座的）に似通ったものを感じるからですがーー文芸創作をおこなうにあたって単純に真似するのではなく、むしろ、「近さ」を感じながらも、あえて違いを際立たせることに意識を向けながら、一作一作読み続けてゆきたいと思います。
ということで、まずは、上記の作品たちを揃えることにします＾＾v 手にはいるかな＾＾？
This person's style is quite helpful --- because I feel something similar in temperament (≒ constellation) --- but when I create literary works, I do not simply imitate them, while feeling "closeness", but also paying attention to making the differences stand out, I would like to continue reading each work.
So, first of all, I will collect the above works (^^v Can I have them in my hands (^^?
2022-06-16
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』、やっと「十二」まで読み終わりました。残るは最終章の「十三」だけ。味わい深い長編小説をじっくり読むと、それが自分の日々の生活の一部であるかのように感じられるから、不思議です。自分はいま、林蔵さんの人生を伴走をしている感じ。『海の祭礼』を読み終わるときも一抹の寂しさを感じたけれど、あと１章で林蔵さんともお別れとなると、よりいっそうゆっくり読みたい気分です（＾＾；
Akira Yoshimura's "Rinzo Mamiya", I finally finished reading up to "12". All that's left is the final chapter "13". It's strange because when I read a tasteful feature-length novel, it feels as if it's part of my daily life. I feel like I'm now accompaning Mr. Rinzo's life. When I finished reading "The Festival of the Sea", I felt a little lonely. Well I say goodbye to Rinzo in one more chapter, so I feel like reading it even more slowly (^^;
2022-06-05
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』、５／２４の二、三日後、さらに４３２ページの「十一」の最終行まで読んだあとは、しばらく読んでいませんでした。
きょうは、雨が降りしきるなか、元日の“とても残念な場所”に行って、クルマの後部座席でしばし仕事をしたんですが、そのあと、久しぶりに林蔵さんに会いました。もちろん本のなかで（笑）
「十二」の途中、４４４ページまで読んだのですが、齢（よわい）五十を超えて、幕府の隠密として大活躍の林蔵さんの姿が描かれています。
I haven't read it for a while after reading Akira Yoshimura's "Mamiya Rinzo" a few days after May 24th, and even the last line of "11" on page 432.
Today, while it was raining heavily, I went to the "very disappointing place" on New Year's Day and worked for a while on the back seat in my car, but after that, I met Mr. Rinzo for the first time in a long time. Of course in the book (laughs). I read up to page 444 in the middle of "Twelve", and it depicts Mr. Hayashizo, who is over fifty years of age and is very active as a secret of the shogunate.
「十一」の後半、シーボルト事件から“解放”された林蔵は、その後、妻も子どももなく、両親も他界して、天蓋孤独の人となりながら、幕府の隠密としての人生をひたすら歩いていくようですね。潔（いさぎよ）い人生だと思います。
In the latter half of "11", Hayashizo was "liberated" from the Siebold Incident, and after that, he had no wife or children, his parents passed away, and while becoming a person of canopy solitude, he seems to be walking his life as a covert of the shogunate. I think he has a clean life.
さて、「十二」の後半はどうなってくのだろう。そして最終章の「十三」はいかに。
興味が尽きないですが、なんだか、読み終わるとロス感が半端ない気がするので、いちばん知りたかった「樺太探検」の一部始終はしっかり堪能できたし、シーボルト事件の経緯（いきさつ）もわかったし、あとはゆっくりじっくり読み進んでいきたいと思います。
Well, what will happen in the latter half of "12"? And how about the final chapter "13"?
It's very interesting, but somehow, when I finish reading it, I feel a sense of loss. So I was able to thoroughly enjoy the whole "Sakhalin Expedition" that I wanted to know the most, and I also understood the history of the Siebold Incident. Well, I would like to read it slowly and carefully.
2022-05-24
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』、「十一」からは樺太探検を終えたあとのお話。いまは文庫版で（４９５ページ中）４１６ページまで読んだところ。
出島からオランダ行きの船が日本近海で座礁したことで、シーボルトのスパイ活動が発覚し、当のシーボルトをはじめ、彼に協力した者たちをことごとく捕縛し、厳しい処断なされるまでの経緯が連綿と綴られています。
Akira Yoshimura's "Mamiya Rinzo", its "11" are stories after the exploration of Sakhalin. I have just read up to 416 pages (out of 495 pages) in the paperback edition.
When a ship from Dejima to the Netherlands ran aground in the waters
near Japan, Siebold's espionage activity was discovered. Siebold and all
those who cooperated with him were captured and severely punished; that
process is described with a calm gaze.
林蔵さんは、このシーボルトに絡んだ大事件に、いわば巻き添えをくった形で関わることになりました。そして、この事件落着後の偵察の密命を受けて、江戸から単身はるばる長崎の出島まで向かい、しっかりと隠密活動をおこなって江戸へ帰来します。
Mr. Rinzo was involved in this big incident caused by Siebold, so to speak, in the form of collateral damage. Then, receiving a secret reconnaissance order after the settlement of this incident, he headed all the way from Edo to Dejima in Nagasaki, and after he engaged firmly in covert activities, he returned to Edo.
ですが不幸なことに、長崎で知った自分の悪評が江戸でも広まっていて、世間では、林蔵さんが日本側の「シーボルト協力者」らの頭領格を密告したことに
なっていました。このため林蔵さんは、樺太探検の英雄から、一転、わが身可愛さの密告者になっていて、世間の冷たい視線に曝されることになり、転居したり
など難儀な目に遭うようです。
However,
unfortunately, his
bad reputation that he learned in Nagasaki was also spread in Edo, and
in the public, he was thought that he had secretly informed the head of
"Siebold's collaborators" on the Japanese side. For this reason, Mr.
Rinzo changed from the hero of the Sakhalin expedition to the secret
informant for his self-protection. And it seems that he will be exposed to the cold gaze of people around him, and will face some difficulties such as moving.
シーボルトという独逸人医師は、かなりの曲者で、こいつは日本から相手にされなくなったら、今度は露西亜に自分を売り込むなど、じつの油断のならない独逸人でした。目先の医術に幻惑されて、今でもこやつを立派な外国人扱いしている風潮が色濃く残っているようですが、とんでもないことです。
おっと、話が脱線しましたが、物語はまだ途上なので今回はこの辺で。ではまた（＾＾b
A German doctor named Siebold was a very dangerous man.
He was a quite cunning German who sold himself to Russia when he
couldn't be dealt with by Japan. Dazzled by the Western medical
technology he showed, it seems that there is still a strong
tendency to treat him as a good foreigner, but it is outrageous.
Oops, the story was derailed, but the story is still in progress, so this time around here. See you (^^b
2022-05-04
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』、「十」まで読み終わりました。文庫版にして372ページめ。ここまでで、林蔵さんは４０歳後半。唯一の肉親だった母親を亡くして、妻もおらず、天涯孤独の身の上になった処まで。
Akira Yoshimura "Mamiya Rinzo". I have finished reading "Ten". The paperback edition is on page 372. So far, Mr. Rinzo is in his late 40s. To the point where he lost his only clotest relative, his mother, and had no wife, then became lonely for the rest of his life.
蝦夷地の測量は海岸だけでなく内陸部もすでに終えていて、その偉業は「十」の中ほどで達成したので、林蔵さんと北海道や樺太にまつわる壮大な物語は、冒頭から361ページまでになります。
その後は、健脚と鋭い観察眼と冷静沈着な態度と強い危機管理意識が幕府から評価されて、「隠密」の役割を担うようになるようです。
The survey of Ezochi has already been completed not only on the coast but also in the inland area, and the feat was achieved in the middle of "Ten", so the magnificent story about Mr. Rinzo and Hokkaido and Sakhalin is up to 361 pages from the beginning.
After that, his good legs, sharp observation eyes, extremely calm attitude, and strong crisis management consciousness were evaluated by the Shogunate, and it seems that he will play the role of "secret agent".
ただ、まだ詳細は把握していいませんが、あのシーボルトが起こした事件に巻き込まれて難儀ね目に遭うようで、そのへんの経緯が残りの「十一」から「十三」までの間に描かれるようです。
このお話もまた、シゴトの合間にじっくりゆっくり読み進みたいと思います。
However, I have not grasped the details yet, but it seems that he will be involved in the incident caused by Siebold and encounter difficulties, and the history of that change seems to be drawn between the remaining "11" and "13".
I would like to read this story slowly and slowly in between Shigoto. I would like to read this story slowly and slowly between sigots.
2022-04-23
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』。「八」まで読了。文庫版にして291ページめ。林蔵さんの働きが幕府から高く評価されて、幕府役人最下層から過分の出世を果たした下知を出張先の江戸で受けるところまで。
彼は、樺太北部の探査の命を逸脱して、大陸東端の東韃靼までまで勝手に渡航したことが、「国禁」を犯す重罪であることを問われるかもしれないことを恐れていましたが、申し開きの手続きを踏むこともなく、率直な好評かを得たことに、まずは安堵したのでありました。よかった、よかった。
Akira Yoshimura "Rinzo Mamiya". Read up to "eight". The paperback edition is on page 291. Mr. Rinzo's work was highly valued by the Shogunate government, and he received an appointment with the exceptional career from the bottom of the shogunate officials in Edo where he was on a business trip.
He was afraid that he might be accused of being a felony of committing "national prohibition" by deviating from the life of exploration in northern Sakhalin to the east of the continent, but he was relieved to have received a frank evaluation without any pursuit procedure. It was good, good.
2022-04-21
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』。文庫版にして259ページめで小休止。おもしろい。いまの場面は、林蔵さんが、樺太は南北に細長い島であることを、対岸の大陸にわたったのち再び船で帰還したことで、自ら実証したところ。
そして、その「事実」や大陸東端での清国の支配情況や、露国の影響が及んでいないことなどを幕府に報告すべく、樺太南部へと向かった場面です。
ギリヤーク人の酋長や村人たちとの別れは、文章表現は極めてあっさりしているけれど、想像するだけで感動的。さて、あと数ページで「七」が終わるので、そこまできたらまたここで追記しますね。
Akira Yoshimura "Rinzo Mamiya". The paperback edition has a short pause on page 259. Interesting. In this scene, Mr. Rinzo himself demonstrated that Sakhalin is a long and narrow island from north to south by returning by boat after crossing the continent on the opposite shore.
Then, in order to report to the Shogunate the "facts", the state of control of the Qing dynasty at the eastern end of the continent, and the fact that the influence of Russia has not reached, it is a scene heading to the southern part of Sakhalin.
The farewell to the chief and villagers of the Giliyak people is extremely simple in terms of text expression, but it is touching just to imagine. By the way, "7" will end in a few more pages, so I will add it here again when I get there.
「七」まで読了しました。林蔵さんが樺太北部の地形調査を終えたあと、さらに、清の出張所のある東韃靼のデレンまで“探検”し終えて、１年２か月もの歳月をかけて、無事、樺太最南端の白主（しらぬし）まで戻ったところまで。
白主まで戻った場面で、読者の自分も「おー戻ってきたあ」という感じになりましたが、それから、海の氷結を前にすぐに宗谷へと帰還しますが、宗谷に着いたときの「帰ってきた！」という感覚は、読者の自分もまるで、故郷に帰ってきたかのような感激に包まれました。
うーんおもしろい。淡々とした、記録文のような文体だけれど、惹きこまれます。
I have read up to "7". After Mr. Hayashi completed the topographical survey of the northern part of Sakhalin, he also completed "exploring" to Deren in the Qing dynasty, and after a year and two months, he returned safely to the southernmost tip of Sakhalin 白主[Shiranushi] in Sakhalin.
When Mr.Rinzo returned to the Shiranushi, I felt like I was back. And then he immediately returned to Soya before the freezing of the sea. And when he arrived at Soya, I also had a feeling of "I'm back!". At that time, I was wrapped in the impression that the reader mymself was as if I had returned to my hometown.
Hmmm interesting. It's a plain, record-like style, but it's fascinating.
2022-04-16
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』。ゆっくりというか、間を充分にあけながら読んでます。いまは、文庫版にして231ページめ。
林蔵さんは、樺太北部対岸のアジア大陸東端（東韃靼）に上陸してから、まさしく、そのものズバリの「探検」旅行をはじめています。その道中、止宿先で荒々しい現地人どもに拉致され、命を奪われそうになりますが、同行の者がこいつらを蹴散らしてくれ、九死に一生を得た場面。
そこからさらに読み進んでいくと、清国の出張所のあるデレンという名の街の、とりわけ喧噪極める交易の様子が描かれ、また、清国の役人たちに関心をもたれた林蔵さんが、漢字の筆談で交流する場面も描かれています。
なかでも興味深いのは、林蔵さんが「義経伝説」にちなんだことを試しに訊いていみたところ、清国の役人も同行の酋長の返答内容は、その流説（るせつ）を裏づけるようなものであったこと。
ここで私は、本を閉じて椅子から立ち上がり、しばし窓外（そうがい）の空に眼をやった…。夕暮れ前の天空は、まだ青みを残して爽やか。きょうは246ページでストップしよう。
Akira Yoshimura "Rinzo Mamiya". I read it slowly, or with a sufficient gap. Now, the paperback edition is on page 231.
Mr. Rinzo has just started a true "Exploration" trip since he landed on the eastern end of the Asian continent (東韃靼[East Sakhalin]) on the opposite bank of northern Sakhalin. Along the way, he was abducted by the rough locals at the stop and was about to lose his life, but the companion kicked them away and died in nine deaths had a narrow escape from death.
As I read further from there, I can know that the particularly noisy trade in the city named デレン[Deren or Delen (or other spelling)] where the Qing dynasty's branch office is located, and the scene in which Mr. Rinzo, who was interested in officials in Qing, interacts with chinese character writings.
Of particular interest is when Mr.Rinzo asked them to try something related to the "義経伝説[Legend of Yoshitsune]", not only the responses of the Qing dynasty officials but also the accompanied chief seemed to support the theory.
Here, I closed the book, got up from the chair, and for a while looked at the sky outside the window ... The sky before dusk is refreshing with still blue. I'll stop at page 246 today.
2022-04-10
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』。じわりじわりと読んでます。文庫版にして192ページめ。林蔵さんが、樺太北部の狭くて浅い海峡を小船で北上して、世界で初めて、樺太の北端に迫る海域にまで進出した場面。
おもしろい。まるで、自分が林蔵さんになって「探検」している感じ。記録文のような硬い文章だけれど、まるで固いスルメや干した昆布を齧るような味わいのある文体。中島敦に近い文体かな……記録文学風なスタイルなので、あそこまで美文ではないけれど。
ただ、この人の生硬な文体に慣れると、むしろこの作家の書く文章に定期的に浴していたい気分にかられるから、不思議です。この人の基本的な気質が、同じ星座の自分に合うというのが、まず根底にあるような気がしています。
この人の文体、自分なりに取りこみたい……そう、もうすこし軽めにアレンジして。
"間宮林蔵 Rinzo Mamiya" written by 吉村昭[Akira Yoshimura]. I read it gradually. It is a paperback version and 192 pages. This is the scene in which Mr. Rinzo sailed north in a narrow and shallow strait in the northern part of Sakhalin by a small boat and advanced to the sea area near the northern end of Sakhalin for the first time in the world.
Interesting. It feels like I'm "exploring" as Mr. Hayashizo. It is a hard sentence like a documentary, but it has a style with a taste that bites hard スルメ[surume, dried squid] and dried 昆布[kombu, kelp]. I think it's a style close to 中島敦[Ton Nakajima]. It's a record literary style, so it's not beautiful like that.
However, once I get used to this person's hard style, I want to take bathe regularly in the writings written by this writer; it's strange for me. First of all, I feel that the basic temperament of this person suits me in the same constellation of the horoscope.
I want to take in this writer's style in my own way …… Yes, I'll arrange it a little lighter.
さて、そんなことをつらつらと書いたあと、また続きを読みたくなって、208ページで終わる「六」まで読み終わりました。
林蔵さんは、さきほど読み終えた直後に、樺太の最北端までたどりつきました。そしてそのまま、島を一周して最南端の出発地にもどるつもりでしたが、東海岸沿いを小舟で航行するのはことは不可能で、陸路も地元住民が塚づけないほどの難所ばかりなので断念しました。
でも、たしかにその目で北側に広がる大海原を目にし、地元の原住民の「ここから先は海だ」という証言も得たので、島であることの確認はできたことから、もと来た航路を引き返しました。
ただ、途中の止宿先で、このまま帰るのではなく、この際、西向かいの大陸にわたってみたいと強く望み、忠義深いアイヌの一人の従者とともに、大陸上陸の機会を待つことにしたようです。
ということで、「七」では、大陸東端の探検話になりそうです。楽しみだな。
Well, after writing such a thing, I wanted to read more, so I finished reading up to "6" which ends on page 208.
Mr. Rinzo reached the northernmost tip of Sakhalin immediately after my reading it.
He was planning to go around the island and return to the southernmost departure point. But he gave up because it was impossible to sail along the east coast by small boat and the land route was too difficult for local residents to approach.
However, it is true that he saw the ocean spreading to the north with his own eyes, and he got the testimony of the local natives that "the sea is ahead from here", so he was able to confirm that Sakhalin was an island. Therefore he (and 6 Ainu servants) turned back on the original ocean route.
However, at the stopover destination on the way, instead of returning as it is, he strongly wanted to cross the continent facing west at this time. And he decided to wait for the opportunity to land on the continent with one loyal Ainu servant.
Well, in "7", it seems to be an exploration story at the eastern end of the continent. I'm looking forward to it.
2022-04-03
吉村昭『間宮林蔵』。「五」まで読みました。文庫版にして164ページめ。林蔵さんが樺太北部の西岸を北上し、大陸のアムール川河口手前の最狭小部付近まで到達したけれど、船でのさらなる北上が困難なことから、「樺太は半島ではなく離島」であることの強い確信をもって、樺太最南端まで引き返したところまでの叙述になります。
"間宮林蔵 Rinzo Mamiya" written by 吉村昭[Akira Yoshimura]. I read up to "5". The 164th page for
the paperback edition. Mr. Rinzo went north on the west bank of the
northern part of Sakhalin and reached the vicinity of the narrowest part
in front of the mouth of the Amur River on the continent, but since it
was difficult to go further north by boat, he turned back to the
southernmost tip of Sakhalin with a strong conviction that "Sakhalin is
not a peninsula, but a remote island"; the above story is written.
文体は、『海の祭礼』とおなじく、記録文書に近いような、簡潔で生硬な表現スタイルになっていますが、それがかえって、読書の醍醐味である「想像力」を喚起することにつながって、「次はどうなるんだろう。彼らの行く手に何が待っているんだろう」という素朴な関心が、胸のなかでじわりと昂(たか)まってきます。なので、切りのいい休止箇所を探すのが、ある意味大変です（笑）
The style of expression is
similar to that of "Festival of the Sea", and it has a simple and
straightforward expression style that is close to a documentary
document, but on the contrary, it leads to arousing the "imagination"
that is the real pleasure of reading, and the simple interest of "what
will happen next, what awaits them in their path?" slowly rises in my
heart. So, in a sense, it's hard to find a good resting point (laughs).
2022-03-20
年末から年始にかけて一気に読んだ『海の祭礼』（文春文庫） 。吉村昭さんの長編歴史小説（全476ページ）。まるで、歴史関連の記録文書を読んでいるような箇所が多かったけれど、読了の時が近づくにつれて、それまで浴してきたこの作品の小説世界から、離れたくない気分になりました。
From the end of the year to the beginning of the year, I read "The Festival of the Sea" (Bunshun Bunko) at once. The feature-length historical novel by Akira Yoshimura (476 pages in total). There were many passages where it was as if I was reading a historical documentary, but as the time for reading approached, I felt like I didn't want to leave the novel world of this work that I had been bathing in until then.
基本的には、二人の主人公に愛着を懐（いだ）いたからではあるけれど、 さまざまな場面、そこにちょっとずつ顔をだす人びと。そして、幕末という時代の雰囲気までが、場面ごとに絡みついてきて、吉村さんの織りなす独特の物語世界にすっかりはまってしまいました。
Basically, it was because I had an attachment to the two main characters, but there were various scenes, and people who appeared little by little there. And even the atmosphere of the era at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate became intertwined with each scene, and I was completely absorbed in the unique story world woven by Mr. Yoshimura.
三島さんのように華々しい文才を煌めかせる作家ではないけれど、この人の筆力もすごい。一見取っつきにくい文体なので、最初のうちは一つひとつ文字を拾うように読んでいくけれど、吉村スタイルに馴染んでゆくにつれて、いつのまにか作品世界に惹き込まれてしまっている…。
He
is not a writer like Mr. Mishima who can sparkle with his brilliant
literary talent, but his writing ability is also amazing. At first
glance, the writing style is difficult to grasp, so at first I read it
as if picking up the letters one by one, but as I became accustomed to
the Yoshimura style, before I knew it, I was drawn into the world of the
work.
“物書きの端くれ”として、この技量は見習いたい。いや、この文体は、かなりなていど真似したいと思いました…笑。
そしていま、それらのすべての期待をこめて、『間宮林蔵』（講談社文庫）を読みはじめています。今回は一気に読み進むのではなく、じっくりと読書することを愉しみながら、シゴトの合間合間に読み進めてゆくつもり。１月の後半からパラパラと読みはじめて、いまは、文庫本で全501ページ中127ページまで読んだところです。
どうやら、最近の自分は、この長編小説とも、一緒に生活をはじめているようです…笑。
As a "fag end of writer", I want to emulate this skill. No, I wanted to imitate this style quite a bit...(smile).
And
now, with all those expectations, I'm starting to read "Rinzou Mamiya"
(Kodansha Bunko). This time, instead of reading all at once, I will enjoy reading carefully and read it in between Shigoto. I started reading from the latter half of January, and now I have just read 127 of the 501 pages in the paperback book. Apparently, I've started living with this feature-length novel recently...(smile).
ちなみに、間宮林蔵さんに関しては、FMわっぴ〜の月曜日朝10時の番組『和一のなつかしき昭和から明日へ』という番組でも、北海道や樺太（サハリン）に縁が深いことから、その功績を数回にわたって詳しく紹介しています。なお、数回にわたるこの放送、これからも、何度もくり返し聴きたいシリーズの一つです。
ということで、この放送も刺戟になって、間宮林蔵さんことをもっと知りたいという思いもあって、吉村昭さんのこの本を手にしているわけでもあります。
By the
way, as for Mr. Rinzo Mamiya, FM Wappy's program "From Waichi's Nostalgic
Showa to Tomorrow" at 10 o'clock on Monday mornings also introduces his
achievements in detail several times because he has a deep connection to
Hokkaido and Sakhalin. In addition, this broadcast in several times is one of the series that I would like to listen to again and again.
So, this broadcast was also a stimulus, and I wanted to know more about Rinzou Mamiya, so I also have this book by Akira Yoshimura in my hand.
