長与 善郎（ながよ よしろう、1888年–1961年）は、日本の小説家・劇作家・評論家。東京生まれ。医学者・長与専斎の五男。東京帝国大学英文科を中退し、1911年に『白樺』の同人となった。武者小路実篤らと交流し、人間の個性や精神の自由を重視する作品を、小説、戯曲、評論などの形で発表した。キリシタン禁制下の日本で、キリスト像を制作した青年鋳物師の苦悩を描く『青銅の基督――一名南蛮鋳物師の死』（英題 “The Bronze Christ”）を1923年に発表。像に注いだ芸術家としての誇りと、信仰を取り締まる権力との対立を通して、人間が守ろうとする価値と生死の問題を問うた。また、家族や友人との関係をたどりながら自身の精神的な歩みを記した『わが心の遍歴』で、第11回読売文学賞評論・伝記賞を受賞。歴史上の人物や宗教的な葛藤を題材にするとともに、自身の経験にも目を向け、理想を抱く個人が社会や他者とどう向き合うかを描いた。
Yoshiro Nagayo (1888–1961) was a Japanese novelist, playwright and critic. Born in Tokyo, he was the fifth son of the physician Sensai Nagayo. He left the English literature program at Tokyo Imperial University without graduating and joined the Shirakaba literary circle in 1911. Associated with writers including Saneatsu Mushanokoji, he explored individuality, spiritual freedom and humanistic ideals through fiction, drama and criticism. Depicting a young metalworker’s predicament under Japan’s prohibition of Christianity, his 1923 story “The Bronze Christ” examines the conflict between artistic conviction and religious persecution. The protagonist’s achievement in creating an image of Christ brings him into confrontation with the authorities, raising questions about the values a person may defend at the risk of death. Reconstructing his own intellectual and emotional development through relationships with family and friends, “Waga Kokoro no Henreki,” an autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, received the 11th Yomiuri Prize for Literature in the criticism and biography category. Nagayo drew on historical subjects, religious conflicts and personal experience to examine how individuals with strongly held ideals confront society and other people. His work places those convictions under pressure, exploring the tensions between inner freedom, human relationships and external authority.
