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A full-length novel by Takahama Kyoshi. It was serialized in the Kokumin Shimbun from February 18 to July 28, 1908 (Meiji 41). It was published by Minyusha in January 1909. Kyoshi's original intention was novels, and in the late 1890s he was more interested in novels than in sketches, but this is his first full-length novel after the publication of his collection of short stories, Keitou (Cocktails) (1908). It is a highly autobiographical coming-of-age novel, entrusted to the protagonist, Hawa Sanzo. It is based on Masaoka Shiki, Naito Meisetsu, Fujino Kohaku, Shinkai Hitou, Iogi Hyoutei, Takemoto Kotosa, and other figures, depicting his high school days in Kyoto when he was passionate about haiku, the haiku poets who came from Tokyo, and his admiration for female Gidayu poets after moving to Tokyo. The original is a 90-chapter version. There is also a revised 78-chapter version that removes the part about his love affair with the female Gidayu poets, but the original is superior.

[Kiyoto Fukuda]

"The Complete Works of Takahama Kyoshi, Volume 5" (1974, Mainichi Shimbun)

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高浜虚子(きょし)の長編小説。1908年（明治41）2月18日より7月28日まで『国民新聞』に連載。09年1月民友社刊。初心は小説にあった虚子は明治30年代後半写生文より小説に熱中したが、短編集『鶏頭』（1908）出版後の初めての長編。主人公塀和(はわ)三蔵に託した自伝性の濃い青春小説。俳句に熱中した京都の高校時代、東京より来遊する俳人たち、上京後の女義太夫(ぎだゆう)へのあこがれなど、正岡子規(しき)、内藤鳴雪(めいせつ)、藤野古白、新海非風、五百木飄亭(いおぎひょうてい)、竹本小土佐らをモデルにした。原作は90回本。女義太夫への痴情部分を除いた改訂の78回本もあるが、原作本が優れている。

［福田清人］

『『定本高浜虚子全集5』（1974・毎日新聞社）』

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