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Shūhei Fujisawa (1927–1997)

Auteur van The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales

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蝉しぐれ (文春文庫) (1991) 8 exemplaren
用心棒日月抄 (1981) 5 exemplaren
孤剣 : 用心棒日月抄 (1984) 4 exemplaren
花のあと (1989) 4 exemplaren
秘太刀馬の骨 (1995) 3 exemplaren
ふるさとへ廻る六部は (1995) 3 exemplaren
密謀 上 (1985) 3 exemplaren
密謀 下 (1985) 3 exemplaren
隠し剣孤影抄 (1983) 3 exemplaren
早春 : その他 (2002) 3 exemplaren
たそがれ清兵衛 (2006) 3 exemplaren
海鳴り 下 (1987) 3 exemplaren
暗殺の年輪 (1978) 3 exemplaren
日暮れ竹河岸 (2000) 3 exemplaren
市塵 下 (2005) 3 exemplaren
市塵 上 (2005) 3 exemplaren
一茶 (1981) 3 exemplaren
隠し剣秋風抄 (2004) 3 exemplaren
竜を見た男 (1987) 3 exemplaren
花のあと (1985) 3 exemplaren
闇の傀儡師 下 (1984) 2 exemplaren
驟り雨 (1985) 2 exemplaren
闇の傀儡師 上 (1984) 2 exemplaren
闇の梯子 (1987) 2 exemplaren
夜消える (2008) 2 exemplaren
時雨のあと (1982) 2 exemplaren
白き瓶 : 小説長塚節 (1988) 2 exemplaren
長門守の陰謀 (1983) 2 exemplaren
麦屋町昼下がり (1992) 2 exemplaren
春秋山伏記 (1984) 2 exemplaren
一茶 2 exemplaren
風の果. 下 (1988) 2 exemplaren
風の果. 上 (1988) 2 exemplaren
海鳴り 上 (2004) 2 exemplaren
冤罪 (1994) 2 exemplaren
回天の門 (1986) 2 exemplaren
冤罪 (1976) 2 exemplaren
神隠し (2008) 2 exemplaren
神隠し 市井小説集 (1993) 2 exemplaren
喜多川歌麿女絵草紙 (1982) 2 exemplaren
凶刃 : 用心棒日月抄 (2004) 2 exemplaren
刺客 : 用心棒日月抄 (1987) 2 exemplaren
時雨みち (1984) 2 exemplaren
玄鳥 (文春文庫) (1994) 1 exemplaar
一茶 1 exemplaar
暗殺の年輪 1 exemplaar
Enzai (寃罪) 1 exemplaar
????れ 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Fujisawa, Shūhei
Officiële naam
Kosuge, Tomeji
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
藤沢周平
Geboortedatum
1927-12-26
Overlijdensdatum
1997-01-26
Graflocatie
Hachiōji Cemetery, Tōkyō
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Japan
Land (voor op de kaart)
Japan
Geboorteplaats
Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan
Plaats van overlijden
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Beroepen
teacher, journalist, and writer

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I was watching an interview with Yoji Yamada on his The Twilight Samurai DVD, and he said he had gotten some of his inspiration from a short story called "The Bamboo Sword." Indeed, the short story and the end of the movie track very closely.

All of the eight stories in this collection are set in the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate (~1600-1620). Most of them take place in small towns; although the stories are each separate, one almost expects a character from a prior story to stroll through at some point. Quite a few of the stories have some "trick" ending, which does lessen the enjoyment a bit (for example, in the titular story, a samurai sent to kill a traitor to the clan admits that he is so poor that he had to sell his "good" sword for money and replace it with one of bamboo; the story then hinges on what the main character knows but the traitor -- and the reader -- does not). There are other spots where it's hard to tell if the story is at fault or it's a problem of translation: In "Out of Luck," the story starts with the viewpoint of a woman restaurant owner, but switches to that of a young playboy a page or two in and stays there through the end of the story. Still, these were generally enjoyable character studies in a very interesting period in Japan's history.

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LT Haiku:

Short stories set in
Japan when politics kept
shifting like the wind.
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Leden
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Populariteit
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ISBNs
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