100 Pun de Meicho
# 100 Pun de Meicho

100 Pun de Meicho (100分de名著, Literally "An introduction to a masterpiece of literature within 100 minutes") is an NHK television program in Japan, broadcast since 2011.

## Concept

The concept of the program is to shed light on a masterpiece of literature from all over the world, from classic to contemporary literature. The program invites an expert as the pundit who is best known for the selected masterpiece, in terms of both of the prominent knowledge of (and research on) the title and the excellence in presentation skills to the broad audiences comprehensibly. The pundit explains the profound world of the title concisely, but insightfully and enjoyable. 100 Pun (100 minutes) means the one title will be explained in 25 minutes per week, in a month (4 weeks × 25 minutes = 100 minutes). In the last week, the program will invite another guest commentator and have discussion sessions with the personalities and the pundit (not all the time).

## Broadcast

(2018-)

Monday 22:25 - 22:50

Wednesday 5:30 - 5:55、12:00 - 12:25

## Personalities

(2018-)

・Hikaru Ijūin ・Yuriko Shimazu [ja]

## Narrators

In the program, the renowned professional narrators read the major lines of the work.

[] [List of the narrators; 100分de名著#語り手].

## Program

### Regular series

| Date | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2018/1 | Nanshuo Ikun [ja] (teachings of the deceased by an old man in Nanshu) | Saigō Takamori | Akinaka Senzaki |
| 2018/2 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | Shigeru Kashima |
| 2018/3 | 1) Points and Lines 2) Inspector Imanishi Investigates 3) Unearthing the Shōwa Period 4) Madness of gods | Seichō Matsumoto | Takeshi Hara |
| 2018/4 | The Lotus Sutra | | Masatoshi Ueki |
| 2018/5 | On the Meaning of Life | Mieko Kamiya | Eisuke Wakamatsu |

100 Pun de Meicho: regular series (2011 - 2017) :

| Date | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2011/4 | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | Ken Nishi |
| 2011/5 | Analects | Confucius | Yasushi Saku |
| 2011/6 | Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices | Peter Drucker | Atsuo Ueda |
| 2011/7 | Gakumon no Susume | Fukuzawa Yukichi | Takashi Saito |
| 2011/9 | Dhammapada | Gautama Buddha | Shizuka Sasaki |
| 2011/10 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | Yoshimi Takeda |
| 2011/11 | On Happiness | Alain | Masato Goda |
| 2011/12 | Night on the Galactic Railroad | Kenji Miyazawa | Roger Pulvers |
| 2012/1 | Tsurezuregusa | Kenko Houshi | Fumiko Ogino |
| 2012/2 | Bushido | Nitobe Inazō | Hirohumi Yaamoto |
| 2012/4 | The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu | Masako Mitamura |
| 2012/5 | The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | Takashi Kawashima |
| 2012/6 | Pensées | Blaise Pascal | Shigeru Kashima |
| 2012/8 | Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | Yoshihiko Morotomi |
| 2012/9 | The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | Mitsuyoshi Numano |
| 2012/10 | Hōjōki | Kamo no Chōmei | Kazuhiko Kobayashi |
| 2012/11 | Theory of relativity | Albert Einstein | Katsuhiko Sato |
| 2012/12 | The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Hirofumi Mizumoto |
| 2013/1 | Heart Sutra | | Sizuka Sasaki |
| 2013/2 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | Ken-ichi Sato |
| 2013/4 | Kokoro | Natsume Sōseki | Kang Sang-jung |
| 2013/5 | | Laozi | Kunio Hachiya |
| 2013/6 | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Kaori Kawabata |
| 2013/7 | Symposium | Plato | Noburu Notomi |
| 2013/9 | Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) | | Sukeyuki Miura |
| 2013/10 | Oku no Hosomichi | Matsuo Bashō | Kai Hasegawa |
| 2013/11 | One Thousand and One Nights | | Tetsuo Nishio |
| 2013/12 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Kameyama Ikuo |
| 2014/1 | Fūshikaden | Zeami Motokiyo | Kei-ichiro Tsuchiya |
| 2014/2 | The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm | Sho Suzuki |
| 2014/3 | The Art of War | | Kunihiko Yuasa |
| 2014/4 | Man'yōshū | | Yukitsuna Sasaki |
| 2014/5 | Old Testament | | Takashi Kato |
| 2014/6 | Tōno Monogatari | Kunio Yanagita | Masami Ishi |
| 2014/7 | Entomological Souvenirs | Jean-Henri Fabre| | Daisaburo Okumoto |
| 2014/8 | The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Yōko Ogawa |
| 2014/10 | The Pillow Book | Sei Shōnagon | Nakami Yamaguchi |
| 2014/11 | Caigentan | Hong Zicheng | Kunihiro Yuasa |
| 2014/12 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Shouichiro Kawao |
| 2015/1 | The Book of Tea | Okakura Tenshin | Takaki Ookubo |
| 2015/2 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Yumiko Hirono |
| 2015/4 | Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra | Gautama Buddha | Ren Osugi |
| 2015/5 | Zhuangzi | | Souyu Genyu |
| 2015/6 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Masahiko Shimada |
| 2015/7 | Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan | Koizumi Yakumo | Masayuki Ikeda |
| 2015/8 | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | Mariko Hasegawa |
| 2015/9 | The Setting Sun | Osamu Dazai | Genichiro Takahashi |
| 2015/11 | Existentialism and Humanism | Jean-Paul Sartre | Takeshi Ebisaka |
| 2015/12 | (Ryōkan: poems, letters, and other writings) | Ryōkan | Tozen Nakano |
| 2016/1 | Representative men of Japan: essays | Uchimura Kanzō | Eisuke Wakatatsu |
| 2016/2 | What Life Should Mean to You | Alfred Adler | Ichiro Kishimi |
| 2016/3 | 1) Kunitori monogatari 2) Kashin 3) "Meiji To Iu Kokka" 4) Konokuni no Katachi | Ryōtarō Shiba | Michifumi Isoda |
| 2016/4 | Tannishō (Lamentations of Divergences) | Yuien | Tesshu Shaku |
| 2016/5 | The Book of Five Rings | Miyamoto Musashi | Takashi Uozumi |
| 2016/6 | Emile, or On Education | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Ken Nishi |
| 2016/7 | Discourse on Decadence | Ango Sakaguchi | Takaki Okubo |
| 2016/8 | Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch | Immanuel Kant | Toshihito Kayano |
| 2016/9 | Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease | Michiko Ishimure | Eisuke Wakamatsu |
| 2016/11 | Shōbōgenzō | Dōgen | Hiro Sachiya |
| 2016/12 | The Savage Mind | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Shin-ichi Nakazawa |
| 2017/1 | (Chūya Nakahara:poems) | Chūya Nakahara | Haruko Ota |
| 2017/2 | Letter from Jail | Mahatma Gandhi | Takeshi Nakajima |
| 2017/3 | (Feature:Kenji Miyazawa) | Kenji Miyazawa | Kiyomi Yamashita |
| 2017/4 | Jinseiron Note | Kiyoshi Miki | Ichiro Kishiim |
| 2017/5 | Records of the Three Kingdoms | Chen Shou | Yoshihiro Watanabe |
| 2017/6 | Vimalakirti Sutra | | Tessyu Shaku |
| 2017/7 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Yumiko Hirono |
| 2017/8 | Fires on the Plain | Shōhei Ōoka | Masahiko Shimada |
| 2017/9 | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | Masaki Nakamasa |
| 2017/11 | The Conquest of Happiness | Bertrand Russell | Hitoshi Ogawa |
| 2017/12 | Solaris | Stanisław Lem | Mitsuyoshi Numano |

### Special series

100 Pun de Meicho: special series :

| Date | Theme | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2014/1/2 | 100 Pun de Kouhuku Ron (Happiness) | 1) ・The Life of an Amorous Man 　・The Life of an Amorous Woman 2) The Wealth of Nations 3) The Phenomenology of Spirit 4) Introduction to Psychoanalysis | 1) Ihara Saikaku 2) Adam Smith 3) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 4) Sigmund Freud | 1) Masahiko Shimada 2) Noriko Hama 3) Ken Nishi 4) Sho Suzuki |
| 2015/1/2 | 100 Pun de Nihonjin Ron (Japanese people) | 1) The Structure of "Iki" 2) The Book of the Dead 3) The Center-Empty Structure: the Deep Structure of Japan 4) Japanese Spirituality | 1) Shūzō Kuki 2) Shinobu Orikuchi 3) Hayao Kawai 4) Daisetsu Suzuki | 1) Seigo Matsuoka 2) Mari Akasaka 3) Tamaki Saitō 4) Shin-ichi Nakazawa |
| 2016/1/2 | 100 Pun de Heiwa Ron (Peace) | 1) Civilization and Its Discontents 2) The Mediterranean 3) The Eternal Storehouse of Japan 4) (Kanyo ron) | 1) Sigmund Freud 2) Fernand Braudel 3)Ihara Saikaku 4) Voltaire | 1) Tamaki Saitō 2) Shinobu Orikuchi 3) Hayao Kawai 4) Daisetsu Suzuki |
| 2016/11/12 | 100 Pun de "Osamu Tezuka" | 1) ・Princess Knight　・MU 2) Astro Boy 3) Ayako 4) Phoenix:Hō-ō | Osamu Tezuka | 1) Bourbonne 2) Sion Sono 3)Tamaki Saitō 4) Tessyu Shaku |

### Single

This was broadcast as "100 Pun de Shihonron" in NHK Bangumi Tamago [ja].

| Date | Book Title | Author name | Pundit |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2010/9 | Capital: Critique of Political Economy | Karl Marx | Akihito Matoba |

## Awards

* Galaxy Award, January, 2016
* Hoso Bunka Foundation Awards, January, 2016
