Chisso Ha Watashideatta Minamatabyo No Shiso (Kawade Bunko)

[Machine Translation] After an intense struggle against Chisso, the government and the company that caused Minamata disease, Ogata, who was also a patient, had a shocking revelation: "Chisso was me. As a fisherman, he talked with the Shiranui Sea, and after re-bearing Minamata disease as "the door to civilization," the idea of living with the disease emerged. This legendary book by Minamata Disease is now available in a long-awaited paperback edition, supplemented by Michiko Ishimure's review of Ogata's "The Boat of Everlasting Life".

水俣病を引き起こした行政や企業=チッソとの苛烈な闘いの果てに、自身も患者であった緒方に訪れた「チッソは私であった」という衝撃的な啓示。漁師として不知火海と語り合い、水俣病を「文明の扉」として背負い直した先に、病とともに生きる思想が立ちあがる。水俣病が生んだ伝説的名著に、石牟礼道子による緒方評「常世の舟」を増補し、待望の文庫化。