葉室 麟（rin hamuro）- 小説家

葉室麟（はむろ りん、1951年 - 2017年）は、日本の小説家。福岡県北九州市小倉生まれ。西南学院大学卒業後、地方紙記者などを経て、2005年に『乾山晩愁』で歴史文学賞を受賞し、作家デビューした。2007年に『銀漢の賦』で松本清張賞、2012年に『蜩ノ記』で直木賞、2016年に『鬼神の如く　黒田叛臣伝』で司馬遼太郎賞を受賞。代表作『蜩ノ記』は、藩主の側室との不義密通の罪を問われ、10年後の切腹を命じられた武士・戸田秋谷と、彼を監視するために遣わされた若い藩士・檀野庄三郎を描いた時代小説。秋谷が残された日々を藩史編纂に費やし、家族と静かに暮らしながら決められた死を受け入れようとする姿と、その人物を知るにつれて事件の真相に疑問を抱き始める庄三郎の姿を通して、武士が守ろうとした名誉や家族、藩への忠義と、それらの背後に隠された権力の思惑を描いている。

Rin Hamuro (1951–2017) was a Japanese historical novelist born in Kokura, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. After graduating from Seinan Gakuin University, he worked as a local newspaper journalist before making his literary debut in 2005 with "Kenzan Banshu," which received the Rekishi Bungaku Award. He later won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize for "Ginkan no Fu," the Naoki Prize for "Higurashi no Ki" in 2012, and the Shiba Ryotaro Prize for "Kishin no Gotoku: Kuroda Hanshinden." His best-known novel, "Higurashi no Ki," follows Toda Shukoku, a samurai ordered to commit seppuku after ten years for an alleged affair with his lord’s concubine, and Shōzaburō Danno, a younger retainer assigned to watch him. As Shukoku spends his remaining years compiling the domain’s history and living quietly with his family, Danno comes to respect him and begins to question the truth behind his sentence. The novel portrays the conflict between honor, family, loyalty, and the political interests concealed behind a samurai’s condemnation.

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