第7巻の竜馬の活躍の舞台は長崎です。九州諸藩連合を立ち上げたり、後藤象二郎と手を組み、ついに土佐藩を薩長と結び付けたりします。
In the seventh volume, the scene of Ryoma’s actibities was set in Nagasaki. He established Kyusyu Domains Alliance, then finally let the Tosa domain join Satsuma-Choshu alliance joining hands with Goto Shojiro.
第7巻の裏表紙に書かれているあらすじは、次の通りです。
The summary written on the back cover of the seventh volume is as follows.
「同盟した薩摩と長州は着々と倒幕の態勢を整えてゆく。が、竜馬はこの薩長に土佐等を加えた軍事力を背景に、思い切った奇手を案出した。大政奉還――幕府のもつ政権をおだやかに朝廷に返させようというものである。これによって内乱を避け、外国に侵食する暇を与えず、京で一挙に新政府を樹立する――無血革命方式であった。」
Satsuma and Choshu joined in an alliance preparing for overthrowing the shogunate. However, Ryoma took a daring, strange method with the army power of Satsuma, Choshu, plus Tosa in the background. Taisei Hokan……it is an attempt to urge the Tokugawa shogunate to return the political power to the Emperor. With this method, he was going to avoid a civil war, and at the same time, prevent the foreign countries from intruding into Japan to establish a new government in Kyoto……that could be called a bloodless revolution.
風雲の中に飛び込むのが遅れた竜馬ですが、一旦動き出したらもう目まぐるしいほどの活躍ぶりです。とはいっても、亀山社中はいつも資金繰りに困っており、思うような結果は出せずにいるのでした。おまけに紀州藩の船と衝突した社中の船が、積み荷とともに沈んでしまうという不運にも見舞われます。そんな中でも丸山の芸妓お元や女商人大浦お慶など、竜馬を放っておかない女性たちが登場し、物語の色彩を豊かにしていきます。
He came late to the turbulent period but once he became active he hectically rushed around. However, Kameyama Shachu, the company he ran, was always struggling to raise funds and he didn’t achieve anything as he had expected. On top of that, their ship collided with a ship owned by Kishu domain and ended up sinking with its freight unfortunately. Meanwhile, he met some women such as Omoto, a geisha in Maruyama, Oura Okei, a female trader, and they make the story interesting even more.
一方で、中岡慎太郎らの奔走により、京の岩倉具視と薩長による倒幕のお膳立てが整っていきます。そこに危うさを感じる竜馬の脳裏に浮かんだのが大政奉還という途方もないアイデアでした。
On the other hand, Nakaoka Shintaro made great efforts to prepare for overthrowing the shogunate in collaboration with Iwakura Tomomi, an aristocrat in Kyoto, and the royalists from Satsuma and Choshu. Ryoma had a feeling that their plan is quite risky and came up with an extreme idea called Taisei Hokan (Tokugawa Shogunate returns its political power to the Emperor).
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