Ware Ha Kumagusu

[Machine Translation] Minakata Kumagusu was born in Wakayama in the 3rd year of Keio. With an uncommon curiosity, the boy ran around in the mountains and fields, collecting plants, animals, and insects. He also took out encyclopedias and recited their contents from memory. He reached out to all kinds of learning, both in the West and the East, and took as his teachers the vastness of nature and its many volumes of books. His dream was to study and to know everything in the world. However, his father, a merchant, could not reach him. Despite his father's opposition, Kumagusu traveled to the United States, England, and other countries to continue his studies, but his research did not see the light of day. The pain and poverty of not being recognized by the world, the friction with his family, the glory as a scholar, and the separation from his beloved son... Kumagusu's life is described with an unprecedented image of Kumagusu. An emotional historical novel with an unprecedented image of Kumagusu.

慶応3年、南方熊楠は和歌山に生まれた。人並外れた好奇心で少年は山野を駆け巡り、動植物や昆虫を採集。百科事典を抜き書きしては、その内容を諳んじる。洋の東西を問わずあらゆる学問に手を伸ばし、広大無辺の自然と万巻の書物を教師とした。希みは学問で身をたてること、そしてこの世の全てを知り尽くすこと。しかし、商人の父にその想いはなかなか届かない。父の反対をおしきってアメリカ、イギリスなど、海を渡り学問を続けるも、在野を貫く熊楠の研究はなかなか陽の目を見ることがないのだった。世に認められぬ苦悩と困窮、家族との軋轢、学者としての栄光と最愛の息子との別離...。かつてない熊楠像で綴る、エモーショナルな歴史小説。