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.

100 Pun de Meicho
100分de名著
Genre
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
Production
Running time25 minutes
Production companyNHK

Concept

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The personalities and the pundit discuss the masterpiece

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

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(2018-)
Monday 22:25 - 22:50
Wednesday 5:30 - 5:55、12:00 - 12:25

Personalities

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(2018-)
Hikaru Ijūin
Yuriko Shimazu [ja]

Narrators

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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

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Regular series

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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[1]
2014/1 Fūshikaden Zeami Motokiyo Kei-ichiro Tsuchiya[2]
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[2]
2017/1 (Chūya Nakahara:poems) Chūya Nakahara Haruko Ota
2017/2 Letter from Jail Mahatma Gandhi Takeshi Nakajima[3]
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

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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

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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

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Footnote

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  1. ^ "100 Pun de Meicho ni syutsuen, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies[in Japanese]".
  2. ^ a b "Meiji Daigaku × 100 Pun de Meicho".
  3. ^ "100 Pun de Meicho ni Nakajima kyoju syutsuen, Tokyo Institute of Technology [in Japanese]".
  4. ^ "Galaxy sho 1 gatsu do [in Japanese]".
  5. ^ "Housou Taisho ni Tsuite [in Japanese]" (PDF).