Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900
Focuses on the early modern period in Japanese literature. This anthology introduces English readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyoshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), and gokan (bound books).
Print Book, English, 2008
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Columbia University Press, New York, 2008
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xvi, 550 pages.
9780231109901, 9780231109918, 9780231144148, 9780231144155, 9780231516143, 0231109903, 0231109911, 0231144148, 0231144156, 0231516142
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Preface Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters 1. Early Modern Japan 2. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World 3. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho 4. Chikamatsu Monsaemon and the Puppet Theater 5. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater 6. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature 7. Comic and Satiric Poetry 8. Literati Meditations 9. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural 10. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion 11. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books 12. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners 13. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction 14. Gokan: Extended Picture Books 15. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki 16. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited
Previous edition: 2002
Translated from the Japanese