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基本説明
江戸時代ー明治３３年にわたる画期的な日本文学集。詩、小説、劇作だけでなく、随筆、哲学、漢書翻案、文芸批評、狂歌、民話などを含む。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. Includes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and also essays, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works with a number of new translations.
Full Description
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), kibyoshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). The anthology also offers a rich array of poetry-waka, haiku, senryu, kyoka, kyoshi-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 kibyoshi and gokan 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.
Contents
Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters 1. Early Modern Japan 2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture 3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World 4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics 5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bash_ 6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater 7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives 8. Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official 9. Chinese Poetry and the Literatus Ideal 10. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater 11. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature 12. Comic and Satiric Poetry 13. Literati Meditations 14. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural 15. Eighteenth-Century Waka and Nativist Study 16. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion 17. Kiby_shi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books 18. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners 19. Ninj_bon: Sentimental Fiction 20. G_kan: Extended Picture Books 21. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki 22. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited 23. Nativizing Poetry and Prose in Chinese 24. The Miscellany 25. Early-Nineteenth-Century Haiku 26. Waka in the Late Edo Period 27. Rakugo English-Language Bibliography Index
