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KENZAN!VOL.6

Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award

KENZAN!VOL.6

Sen Fujimoto

Oba Hanshoki is an early award-winning work by Izumi Fujimoto, already suggesting her later interest in folk and regional materials. It draws on tangled relationships and local atmosphere to explore the forces inside a community.

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Work Information

A work that places communal ties and human entanglement within a folk-inflected atmosphere.

Izumi Fujimoto is confirmed as a Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award winner for Oba Hanshoki. Kodansha's KENZAN! vol.6 includes the work as a reprinted selection and has an ISBN-bearing print record, so the identifiers use that book rather than a magazine issue.

Review Summaries

  • Later critical notes on Fujimoto's work point to complex plotting and an interest in folk background. Oba Hanshoki can be read as an early expression of that direction.

Book Information

Publisher
講談社
Published
2008-07-11
Pages
843 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784062148672
ISBN-10
4062148676
Price
800 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論

時代小説は面白い。熱風がますます強くなる。 時代小説ジャンルを拡げる第6弾は中国の高陽著「荊軻」を初訳出。ライトノベルで注目の神野オキナも新登場。荒山徹はじめ、ますます熱く時代小説が展開する。

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