Dosan has been described as a consummate villain since the Edo Period, but it was Ango SAKAGUCHI who denied the traditional image of Dosan and described him as an pioneer of the era in his work "Kyouyu" (1953). 江戸時代から道三は極悪人として語られてきたが、そうした従来の道三像を止揚し、時代の先駆者としての道三像を描いたのは坂口安吾『梟雄』(1953年)だった。 |