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A full-length novel by Inoue Yasushi. It was serialized in Chuokoron from March to August 1957, and published by Chuokoron-Shinsha in the same year. It is a historical novel that depicts the events that occurred during the Nara period when four monks traveled to China on a Japanese warship to bring Buddhist precepts to Japan, and how, after much effort, they invited the high priest Ganjin to Japan. The most memorable part is when the sutra copyist monk Gyōgyō throws the enormous scrolls of sutras he had spent 20 years copying into the sea during a storm on his way back. This was Inoue's first full-length historical novel, and has the characteristics of a cultural history novel. This work established Inoue's narrative style of historical novels, which rejects internal descriptions. It was awarded the Art Encouragement Prize.

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"Tenpyo no Irodori" (Shincho Bunko)

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井上靖(やすし)の長編小説。1957年（昭和32）3～8月『中央公論』に連載、同年中央公論社刊。奈良時代、日本に仏教の戒律をもたらすために、4人の留学僧が遣唐船で渡唐し、高僧鑑真(がんじん)を苦心のすえに日本に招いてくる経緯を描いた歴史小説。写経僧業行が20年かかって写した膨大な経巻を帰路暴風のため海中に投ずるくだりはもっとも印象的である。長編歴史小説第一作であり、文化史小説的性格をもつ。内面描写を拒否した井上の歴史小説の叙事的スタイルはこの作品で確立された。芸術選奨受賞。

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