木下順二戯曲選 1 (岩波文庫 緑 100-1)
Furo is a play by Junji Kinoshita. Set in the turbulent early Meiji period, it depicts people caught between old orders and new ideas, community and individual conscience. It is a major modern realist drama by a writer also known for folk plays, and it received the first Kishida Theater Award.
Work Information
People exposed to the waves of historical change confront the weight of ideals and reality.
Furo is a play by Junji Kinoshita, first published as the standalone volume Furo: Gikyoku by Miraisha in 1953. It was later included in editions such as Shinchosha's Ichijikan Bunko, a Kadokawa paperback, and Iwanami Bunko's Furo; Kaeru Shoten: Kinoshita Junji Gikyokusen 1. The Iwanami Bunko edition has ISBN 9784003110010 and ISBN10 4003110013; for a Japanese print book, the ISBN10 can also be used as the ASIN. The play portrays human conflict over ideals, conviction, and adaptation against the social upheaval of early Meiji Japan.
Review Summaries
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The play is discussed as a representative example of Kinoshita's realist drama and as evidence that his work extended beyond folk plays. Its staging of a period of Japanese modernization shows a central concern of his postwar theater.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 岩波書店
- Published
- 1982-07-16
- Pages
- 339 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784003110010
- ISBN-10
- 4003110013
- Price
- 1221 JPY
- Category
- 本/文学・評論/戯曲・シナリオ/日本
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