Daibosatsutoge MIYAKO Shimbun Ban Vol. 1

[Machine Translation] About 30% of "Daibosatsu Touge" serialized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Newspaper was deleted when it was published in book form. Especially, more than 40% of the first serialization of "Daibosatsu Touge" in this volume was deleted. It has been pointed out several times that the text of "Daibosatsu Touge" differs from that of the serial version, but it is generally accepted that the text was refined by writing when it was published in book form. In fact, the only major additions were made at the beginning of the book, and almost all other parts of the book were edited by removing sentences from the text of the serialization.

都新聞に連載された「大菩薩峠」は、単行本化されるにあたって全体の約三〇%が削除されている。なかでも、本巻に収めた第一回連載分は削除された割合が高く、四〇%以上に及ぶ。『大菩薩峠』の連載時と単行本でのテクストの異同については、これまでにも何度か指摘されてきたが、むしろ単行本化の際に書き込まれて洗練されたというのが定説であった。実際には、大きな加筆があるのは冒頭部分だけで、それ以外の箇所はほぼすべて、連載時のテクストから文章を取り除くかたちで編集されている。