久しぶりに読み返した、『竜馬がゆく』。(※昔は数え年なので、実年齢は1〜2歳若かったと思う)
初めて読んだのは大学生の時。
その時、思ったのは、たった5年か、脱藩して死ぬまで…。
28歳になった時、脱藩の歳だと思ったものだ。久しぶりに読み返すと、学生の時とは違った気づきがあるから、我ながら興味深い。
ひとつ紹介したい一文がある。本編ではなく、「あとがき」の一文。
司馬遼太郎がこんなことを書いている。
【一人の人間のもっている魅力が、歴史にどのように参加してゆくものか】
…これからは、【人間らしさ】・【人間にしか出来ない】がテーマになる時代、あったかいテーマのようで結構過酷なテーマの時代になるのではと、私個人勝手に思っているので、感慨深い一文だと思い、留めるために書き残しておきたい。
…ちょっと、司馬遼太郎っぽく投稿してみた（笑）
It’s been a while since I read “Ryoma ga yuku” again. (*I used to count years, so I think my actual age was a year or two younger.)
The first time I read it was when I was a university student.
At that time, I thought it was only five years, or until he left the domain and died…
When I turned 28, I thought I was old enough to leave the clan. It is interesting for me to read it again after a long time, because I notice things differently than when I was a student.
There is one sentence that I would like to introduce. I would like to introduce one sentence, not from the book, but from the “Afterword.
Ryotaro Shiba wrote the following.
How does the charm of a single person participate in history?
…I personally think that from now on, the theme will be “humanity” and “what only human beings can do”, and that this will be an era with a theme that seems warm but is quite harsh, so I think this is a deeply moving sentence, and I would like to leave it here to keep it.
I thought it was a deeply moving piece of writing, and I wanted to leave it behind to preserve it… I tried to post it in a Ryotaro Shiba style (laughs)