Abstract
This study examined fictionality of historical description and art(novel writing) superiority shown in ‘truthful history’ and ‘beautiful history’ from a viewpoint of Heinrich Rickert’s 『history and art』 by focusing on 『Saigo Takamori』 published in 1918. An old gentleman, the main character in the work of art, argues that no one knows the historical truth as the objective descriptions such as ‘truthful history’ through the historical facts are impossible. And he emphasizes an artistic and aesthetic value by expressing ‘surprising sights’ through the description of ‘beautiful history’ if so. It is this that is Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s purpose of creating historical novels and his own way of looking at the historical facts, that is, the distinguishing features from other historical novels as the independent view of history and art.
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