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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2020

eBook ISBN

9780824882631

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Topic

Littérature

Subtopic

Histoire du Japon

Contents
Preface to the Three-Volume Anthology
Preface to the Volume
Introduction: Negotiating a New Literature
Notes for the Reader
Chronology
I. Characters and Manners, High and Low
The Poetic Competition of the Twelve Zodiac Animals
Twenty Local Paragons of Filial Impiety
Characters of Worldly Shop Clerks
II. Exploring Japan: Traveling the Freeways on Foot
Fact, Fantasy, and Foibles on the Roads and in the Cities
Denizens of Kyoto
Famous Places along the Tōkaidō
Glittering Highlights of Edo: Traces of Famous Places New and Old
A Journey to Ise: Some Sibling Scribbles
III. The Monstrous and the Weird
One Hundred Tales from the Various Provinces
The Bearded Lady of the Haunted House
IV. Staging the Supernatural: Heroism in Kamigata and Edo Theatre
A Courtesan’s Soul within Incense Smoke
Kagekiyo
V. Landscapes and Seasons
Saikaku’s Hundred Linked Verses, Annotated by Himself
Starving Poets, Courtesans, and Sandal Makers: Three Sequences from Bashō and His Disciples
The Peddler of Poems
Beneath the Trees
Throughout the Town
VI. Nature and Sentiments
Two-Needle Pine
The Jeweled Water Grass Anthology
VII. Love and Eros
The Tale of Zeraku
Puppets of Passion: Early Edo Songs
Lovebirds’ First Journey
Evening Mist over Mount Asama
To Toribe Mountain
A Puppet Master of the Floating World
VIII. Passions among Men
Mongrel Essays in Idleness
Male Colors Pickled with Pepperleaf Shoots
How a Pledge of Undying Love Was Reborn
The Back Side of Nō Chant
Bad Boy Morihisa, from Virtuoso Vocal Pieces: Beating Rhythm with a Fan
The Male Players’ “Takasago,” from Virtuoso Vocal Pieces: A Stacked Pair of Sake Cups
IX. Gossip, Reportage, and Advertising
Newfangled Spiels
Stirrups of Musashi: An Account of the Meireki Fire of 1657
A Garden of Words from the Boudoir
Rounding Out the Snowman
X. Laughing at Everyday Life
A Sackful of Wisecracks
Today’s Tales of Yesterday
Today’s Book of Jokes
This Year’s Jokes
Hand-Rolled for Laughter
Stories Told by Buzaemon
Jokes Told by Tsuyu
Jokes Worthy of Your Ear
Jokes Left by Rokyū
Jokes to Bloom in Summer Heat, early eighteenth century
Jokes for Side Stitches
Jokes from the God of Fortune
XI. Philosophizing the Ordinary
A Collection of Fallen Grains—Addendum
The Country Zhuangzi
A Book of Everyday Morals
Source Texts and Modern Editions
Contributors
Permissions
Index

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