History Literature Award れきしぶんがくしょう
Edition 16 (1991)
Literary awardHistory
Winners
1 peopleEnshuritsu o Keisan Shita Otoko is Kaze Narumi's historical fiction collection about wasan, Japanese mathematics. Centering on Edo-period mathematicians such as Takebe Katahiro, it turns the passion for numbers and the constraints of the age into fiction.
The intellectual heat of wasan scholars pursuing pi is rendered with the emotion of historical fiction.
384 pages
wasanEdo periodmathematicshistorical fiction