噺家と三人の娘たち
噺家と三人の娘たち
by Lian Hearn
published 2021
Ligature
finest
genre Historical Fiction
明治時代になると西洋諸国の影響をうけて、日本はおおきく変わった。
九代目の噺家、赤羽セイも時代に置いていかれる不安を感じはじめ、新しい物語をかくことが出来なくなっていた。
そこへ、朝鮮国を併合すべきと主張する政治集団の活動家が近づき、高座で世論を動かすようにと依頼する。
しかし噺家としての矜持を大切にするセイは言うなりになるわけにはいかない・・・
陰謀や裏切りに愛や嫉妬が加わり、セイはすばらしい物語をつくりだしていく。
The Storyteller and his Three Daughters
From the author of the international best-selling Tales of the Otori comes a new story about the seduction and peril of stories themselves: the power they hold over their tellers and listeners, and the way they can shape both the past and the future.
Japan in the late 19th century is redefining itself as it opens itself up to the world. The yose theatres are filling with foreign stories, from Charles Dickens to Victor Hugo, and professional rakugo storyteller Akabane Sei IX is enlisted by a group of political agitators to turn public sentiment against Korea and reassert Japan's pride as an international power. But Sei's stories are not so easily bent to any purpose but their own, and he finds himself drawn deeper into the jostling of shadowy forces and rival nations. And then there is the matter of his daughters...