{"product_id":"book-2faq","title":"笠折半九郞 \/ Kasaori Hankuro","description":"\u003cp\u003eHankuro Kasaori and Kojiro Kuroda are fellow retainers of the Kishu Tokugawa house—and inseparable friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHankuro is passionate, stubborn, and quick to anger. Kojiro is calm and thoughtful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teasing remark about Hankuro's future wife and her skill with the koto suddenly turns into a challenge to a duel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore they can meet, however, a great fire breaks out near Wakayama Castle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKojiro rushes to Hankuro with his firefighting equipment and a horse. Remembering his duty as commander of a castle turret, Hankuro races back and leads seventeen men in a desperate effort to save the tower and treasured objects from the flames.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tower survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet when rewards are given, Hankuro alone receives nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumors begin to spread. Was Kojiro responsible? Did their quarrel cost Hankuro his reward?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistrust poisons the friendship until the two men once again prepare to fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the appointed place, however, Hankuro finds not Kojiro—but their lord, Tokugawa Yorinobu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYorinobu reveals the truth: Hankuro was not rewarded because praising such reckless courage might encourage other retainers to sacrifice their lives needlessly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A castle can be rebuilt. A dead man cannot be brought back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kasaori Hankuro\" is a powerful story of friendship, pride, misunderstanding, and a ruler who values the lives of his retainers above castles and treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e紀伊家に仕える笠折半九郎と畔田小次郎は、性格こそ正反対ながら、互いに認め合う無二の親友だった。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eところが、半九郎の婚約者・瑞枝の琴をめぐる些細な冗談から、二人は果し合いを約束してしまう。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eその夜、和歌山城を襲う大火が発生。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e小次郎は決闘より友情と責務を優先し、半九郎へ火事装束と馬を届ける。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e半九郎は十七人の番士とともに猛火へ立ち向かい、角櫓と宝物を守り抜く。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eしかし、ほかの者には恩賞が与えられたのに、半九郎には何の沙汰もなかった。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eやがて噂と疑念が友情を蝕み、二人は再び決闘へ向かう。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e鼠ヶ島で半九郎を待っていたのは、小次郎ではなく主君・徳川頼宣だった。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e「城は焼けても建て直せる。死んだ人間を呼び戻すことはできない」\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e頼宣が恩賞を与えなかった本当の理由を知った半九郎は、自らの狭い心に気づく。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e友情、誇り、噂の毒、そして家臣の命を何より重んじる主君の愛情を描く、山本周五郎の武家人情小説。\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67721042657584,"sku":"BD2faq","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2faq-Square-cover.png?v=1788372950","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2faq","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}