Ryouma Goes His Way

Ryouma Goes His Way Full-length historical period novel by Shiba, Ryuutarou

About the large-scale, long-running drama series that made this work into an original work, please see “Ryouma Goes His Way (NHK large-scale, long-running drama series)”.

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“Ryouma Goes His Way” (りょうまがゆく) is a full-length historical period novel (fiction) by Shiba, Ryuutarou. It makes Sakamoto, Ryouma, who directed the course of the Meiji Restoration at the end of the Edo Period, into the protagonist.

It was serialized from June 21, 1962 to May 19, 1966 in the evening edition of “Sankei Newspaper”, and was published complete in 5 volumes in Bungeishunjuu from 1963 till 1966. It was published complete in 8 volumes in the inaugural issue of Bunshun Bunko in 1974, and it was revised in both book and paperback.

竜馬がゆく