Early Modern Japanese Literature : An Anthology, 1600-1900.
Title:
Early Modern Japanese Literature : An Anthology, 1600-1900.
Author:
Shirane, Haruo.
ISBN:
9780231507431
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (959 pages)
Series:
Translations from the Asian Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Editorial Board -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters -- Chapter 1. Early Modern Japan -- The Shōgunate and the Domains -- The Social Hierarchy -- The Economy and the Three Cities -- The Licensed Quarters -- The Courtesans and Female Entertainers -- Literacy, Scholarship, and Printing -- Women, Readership, and Literature -- Warrior and Urban Commoner Attitudes -- Popular and Elite Literatures -- Periodization -- Chapter 2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture -- Parodies -- The Dog Pillow Book (Inu makura) -- Fake Tales (Nise monogatari) -- Edict Against Christianity -- Humorous Stories -- Today's Tales of Yesterday (Kinō wa kyō no monogatari) -- Dangerous Things in the World -- The Woman Who Cut Off Her Nose -- Asai Ryōi -- Tales of the Floating World (Ukiyo monogatari) -- Preface -- Regarding Advice Against Wenching -- Hand Puppets (Otogi bōko) -- The Peony Lantern -- Military Stories -- O-An's Stories (Oan monogatari) -- Chapter 3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World -- Ihara Saikaku -- Life of a Sensuous Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko) -- Putting Out the Light, Love Begins -- Afterward "Honored" Is Added to Their Names -- Aids to Lovemaking: Sailing to the Island of Women -- Saikaku's Tales from Various Provinces (Saikaku shokokubanashi) -- The Umbrella Oracle -- Five Sensuous Women (Kōshoku gonin onna) -- The Calendar Maker's Wife -- Life of a Sensuous Woman (Kōshoku ichidai onna) -- An Old Woman's Hermitage -- Mistress of a Domain Lord -- A Monk's Wife in a Worldly Temple -- A Teacher of Calligraphy and Manners -- A Stylish Woman Who Brought Disaster -- Ink Painting in a Sensual Robe -- Luxurious Dream of a Man -- Streetwalker with a False Voice -- Five Hundred Disciples of the Buddha-I'd Known Them All.
Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku ōkagami) -- Though Bearing an Umbrella -- Tales of Samurai Duty (Bukegiri monogatari) -- In Death They Share the Same Wave Pillow -- Japan's Eternal Storehouse (Nippon eitaigura) -- In the Past, on Credit, Now Cash Down -- The Foremost Lodger in the Land -- A Feather in Daikoku's Cap -- All the Goodness Gone from Tea -- Worldly Mental Calculations (Seken munezan'yō) -- In Our Impermanent World, Even Doorposts Are Borrowed -- His Dream Form Is Gold Coins -- Holy Man Heitarō -- Ejima Kiseki and the Hachimonjiya -- Characters of Old Men in the Floating World (Ukiyo oyaji katagi) -- A Money-Loving, Loan-Sharking Old Man -- Chapter 4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics -- Matsunaga Teitoku and the Teimon School -- Kitamura Kigin -- The Mountain Well (Yama no i) -- Fireflies -- Nishiyama Sōin and Danrin Haikai -- Okanishi Ichū -- Haikai Primer (Haikai mōgyū) -- Chapter 5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashō -- Bashō and the Art of Haikai -- Hokku -- Composing Haiku -- Combining -- Intermediaries -- Single-Object Poetry -- Greetings -- Overtones -- The Art of Linked Verse -- Reverberation Link -- Status Link -- Withering Gusts (Kogarashi) -- Plum Blossom Scent (Ume ga ka) -- The Poetics of Haiku -- Awakening to the High, Returning to the Low -- Following the Creative -- Object and Self as One -- Unchanging and Ever-Changing -- Haibun -- The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling (Genjūan no ki) -- Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi) -- Chapter 6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater -- Early Jōruri and Kabuki -- Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki shinjū) -- The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Horikawa nami no tsutsumi) -- The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusenya kassen) -- The Heike and the Island of Women (Heike nyogo no shima) -- The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjū ten no Amijima).
Hozumi Ikan -- Souvenirs of Naniwa (Naniwa miyage) -- Chapter 7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives -- Song Confucianism -- Nakae Tōju -- Dialogue with the Elder (Okina mondō) -- On the Virtue of Filial Piety -- Confucian Views of Literature -- Yamazaki Ansai -- Japanese Lesser Learning (Yamato shōgaku) -- Andō Tameakira -- Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu (Shika shichiron) -- The Intentions of the Author -- Chinese Studies and Literary Perspectives -- Itō Jinsai -- The Meaning of Words in the Analects and the Mencius (Gomō jigi) -- Postscript to The Collected Works of Bo Juyi (Hakushimonjū) -- Questions from Children (Dōjimon) -- Itō Tōgai -- Essentials for Reading the Book of Songs (Dokushi yōryō) -- Ogyū Sorai -- Master Sorai's Teachings (Sorai sensei tōmonsho) -- On the Study of Poetry and Prose -- Chapter 8. Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official -- The Kyōhō Era (1716-1736) -- Arai Hakuseki -- Record of Breaking and Burning Brushwood (Oritaku shiba no ki) -- Early Education -- Confucian Precedent and Justice for a Woman -- Chapter 9. Chinese Poetry and the Literatus Ideal -- Hattori Nankaku -- "Traveling Down the Sumida River at Night" (Yoru Bokusui o kudaru) -- Jottings of Master Nankaku Under the Lamplight (Nankaku sensei tōka no sho) -- "Responding to the Lord of Goose Lake" (Gako-kō ni kotau) -- Gion Nankai -- "The Fisherman" (Gyofu) -- Encountering the Origins of Poetry (Shigaku hōgen) -- On Elegance and Vulgarity -- Chapter 10. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater -- Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sōsuke, and Miyoshi Shōraku -- Chūshingura: The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers (Kanadehon Chūshingura) -- Act 6, Kanpei's Suicide -- Namiki Sōsuke -- Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Ichinotani futaba gunki) -- Act 3, scene 3: Kumagai's Battle Camp -- Suga Sensuke -- Gappō at the Crossroads (Sesshū Gappō ga tsuji).
Act 2, Climactic Scene -- Chapter 11. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature -- Jōkanbō Kōa -- Modern-Style Lousy Sermons (Imayō heta dangi) -- The Spirit of Kudō Suketsune Criticizes the Theater -- Hiraga Gennai -- Rootless Weeds (Nenashigusa) -- In Hell -- Ryōgoku Bridge -- The Lover Reveals His True Form -- The Modern Life of Shidōken (Fūryū Shidōken den) -- Asanoshin Meets the Sage -- Land of the Giants -- Land of the Chest Holes -- Island of Women -- "A Theory of Farting" (Hōhi-ron) -- Chapter 12. Comic and Satiric Poetry -- Senryū -- Karai Senryū -- Kyōka -- Yomono Akara -- Akera Kankō -- Hezutsu Tōsaku -- Yadoya no Meshimori -- Ki no Sadamaru -- Kyōshi -- Dōmyaku Sensei, Master Artery -- Chapter 13. Literati Meditations -- Yosa Buson -- Hokku -- Buson's Poetics -- Preface to Shōha's Haiku Collection (Shundei kushū) -- Japanese-Chinese Poetry -- "Mourning the Old Sage Hokuju" (Hokuju rōsen o itamu) -- "Spring Breeze on the Kema Embankment" (Shunpū batei kyoku) -- Haibun -- New Flower Gathering (Shinhanatsumi) -- The Badger -- Takebe Ayatari -- Tales from This Time and That (Oriorigusa) -- Walking the Neighborhoods of Negishi in Search of a Woman -- Chapter 14. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural -- Ueda Akinari -- Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Ugetsu monogatari) -- The Chrysanthemum Vow -- The Reed-Choked House -- A Serpent's Lust -- Chapter 15. Eighteenth-Century Waka and Nativist Study -- Debate on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry -- Kada no Arimaro -- Eight Points of Japanese Poetry (Kokka hachiron) -- On Poetry as Amusement -- Tayasu Munetake -- My Views on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry (Kokka hachiron yogen) -- Kamo no Mabuchi -- Another Reply to Tayasu Munetake (Futatabi kingo no kimi ni kotaematsuru no sho) -- Kamo no Mabuchi -- Thoughts on Poetry (Ka'i kō) -- Motoori Norinaga.
"A Small Boat Punting Through the Reeds" (Ashiwake obune) -- My Personal View of Poetry (Isonokami no sasamegoto) -- The Essence of The Tale of Genji (Shibun yōryō) -- The Tale of Genji, a Small Jeweled Comb (Genji monogatari tama no ogushi) -- The Intentions of the Monogatari -- The Spirit of the Gods (Naobi no mitama) -- First Steps in the Mountains (Uiyamabumi) -- Chapter 16. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion -- The Playboy Dialect (Yūshi hōgen) -- Preface -- Live for Pleasure Alone! -- Santō Kyōden -- Forty-Eight Techniques for Success with Courtesans (Keiseikai shijū hatte) -- The Tender-Loving Technique -- The True-Feeling Technique -- Chapter 17. Kibyōshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books -- Koikawa Harumachi -- Mr Glitter 'n' Gold's Dream of Splendor (Kinkin sensei eiga no yume) -- Santō Kyōden -- Grilled and Basted Edo-Born Playboy (Edo umare uwaki no kabayaki) -- Fast-Dyeing Mind Study (Shingaku hayasomegusa) -- Chapter 18. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners -- Jippensha Ikku -- Travels on the Eastern Seaboard (Tōkaidōchū hizakurige) -- Journey's Start -- Changed into a Fox -- The False Ikku -- Shikitei Sanba -- Floating-World Bathhouse (Ukiyoburo) -- The Larger Meaning -- Women's Bath -- Chapter 19. Ninjōbon: Sentimental Fiction -- Tamenaga Shunsui -- Spring-Color Plum Calendar (Shunshoku umegoyomi) -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Chapter 20. Gōkan: Extended Picture Books -- Ryūtei Tanehiko -- A Country Genji by a Commoner Murasaki (Nise Murasaki inaka Genji) -- Book 4 (concluding part) -- Book 5 -- Chapter 21. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki -- Tsuruya Nanboku -- Ghost Stories at Yotsuya (Yotsuya kaidan) -- Act 2, Tamiya Iemon's House -- Act 3, Deadman's Ditch -- Chapter 22. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited -- Kyokutei Bakin -- The Eight Dog Chronicles (Nansō Satomi hakkenden) -- Fusehime at Toyama Cave.
Fusehime's Decision.
Abstract:
This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also essays, treatises, literary criticism, comic poetry, adaptations from Chinese, folk stories and other non-canonical works. Many of these texts have never been translated into English before, and several classics have been newly translated for this collection. Early Modern Japanese Literature introduces English readers to an unprecedented range of prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyôshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), gôkan (bound books), and ninjôbon (books of romance and sentiment). The anthology also offers a rich array of poetry -- waka, haiku, senryû, kyôka, kyôshi -- and eleven plays, which range from contemporary domestic drama to historical plays and from early puppet theater to nineteenth century kabuki. Since much of early modern Japanese literature is highly allusive and often elliptical, this anthology features introductions and commentary that provide the critical context for appreciating this diverse and fascinating body of texts. One of the major characteristics of early modern Japanese literature is that almost all of the popular fiction was amply illustrated by wood-block prints, creating an extensive text-image phenomenon. In some genres such as kibyôshi and gôkan the text in fact appeared inside the woodblock image. Woodblock prints of actors were also an important aspect of the culture of kabuki drama. A major feature of this anthology is the inclusion of over
200 woodblock prints that accompanied the original texts and drama.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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