Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600 - 1900

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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), kiby�shi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), g�kan (bound books), and ninj�bon (books of romance and sentiment). The anthology also offers a rich array of poetry--waka, haiku, senry�, ky�ka, ky�shi--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 kiby�shi and g�kan 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 Preface Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters Chapter 1: Early Modern Japan THE SHOGUNATE 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, 1607?) Fake Tales (nise monogatari, 1640s) HUMOROUS STORIES Today’s Tales of Yesterday (kinowa kyono monogatari, ca. 1615) Dangerous Things in the World (episode 20) The Woman Who Cut Off Her Nose (episode 35) ASAI RYOI Tales of the Floating World (ukiyo monogatari, 1666) Preface Regarding Advice Against Wenching (book 1, episode 6) Hand Puppets (otogi bo¯ ko, 1666) The Peony Lantern MILITARY STORIES O-an’s Stories (oan monogatari, 1737) Chapter 3: Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World IHARA SAIKAKU Life of a Sensuous Man (kohoku ichidai otoko, 1682) 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 The Umbrella Oracle Five Sensuous Women (koshoku gonin onna, 1686) The Calendar Maker’s Wife (Written in the Calendar’s Middle Column) Life of a Sensuous Woman (koshoku ichidai onna, 1686) 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 okagami, 1687) Though Bearing an Umbrella Tales of Samurai Duty (bukegiri monogatari, 1688) Japan’s Eternal Storehouse (nippon eitaigura, 1688) 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’yo, 1692) In Our Impermanent World, Even Doorposts Are Borrowed His Dream Form Is Gold Coins Holy Man Heitaro EJIMA KISEKI AND THE HACHIMONJIYA Characters of Old Men in the Floating World (ukiyo oyaji katagi, 1720) 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 Fireflies NISHIYAMA SOIN AND DANRIN HAIKAI OKANISHI ICHU Haikai Primer Chapter 5: The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho BASHO 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 Plum Blossom Scent THE POETICS OF HAIKU Awakening to the High, Returning to the Low Object and Self as One Unchanging and Ever-Changing HAIBUN The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling Narrow Road to the Deep North Chapter 6: Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater EARLY JORURI AND KABUKI CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON The Love Suicides at Sonezaki The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa The Battles of Coxinga The Heike and the Island of Women The Love Suicides at Amijima HOZUMI IKAN Souvenirs of Naniwa Chapter 7: Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives SONG CONFUCIANISM Nakae Toju Dialogue With the Elder On the Virtue of Filial Piety CONFUCIAN VIEWS OF LITERATURE Yamazaki Ansai Japanese Lesser Learning Ando Tameakira Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu The Intentions of the Author CHINESE STUDIES AND LITERARY PERSPECTIVES Ito Jinsai The Meaning of Words in the Analects and the Mencius Postscript to the Collected Works of Bo Juyi Questions from Children Ito Togai Essentials for Reading the Book of Songs Ogyu Sorai Master Sorai’s Teachings On the Study of Poetry and Prose Chapter 8: Confucianism in Action: An Autobiography of a Bakufu Official THE KYOHO ERA ARAI HAKUSEKI Record of Breaking and Burning Brushwood 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 Jottings of Master Nankaku Under the Lamplight Responding to the Lord of Goose Lake GION NANKAI The Fisherman Encountering the Origins of Poetry On Elegance and Vulgarity Chapter 10: The Golden Age of Puppet Theater TAKEDA IZUMO, NAMIKI SOSUKE, AND MIYOSHI SHORAKU Chushingura: the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers NAMIKI SOSUKE Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani SUGA SENSUKE Gappo at the Crossroads Chapter 11: Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature JOKANBO KOA Modern-Style Lousy Sermons The Spirit of Kudo Suketsune Criticizes the Theater HIRAGA GENNAI Rootless Weeds In Hell Ryogoku Bridge The Lover Reveals His True Form The Modern Life of Shidoken Asanoshin Meets the Sage Land of the Giants Land of the Chest Holes Island of Women A Theory of Farting Chapter 12: Comic and Satiric Poetry SENRYU Karai Senryu KYOKA Yomono Akara Akera Kanko Hezutsu Tosaku Yadoya no Meshimori Ki no Sadamaru KYOSHI Domyaku Sensei, Master Artery Chapter 13: Literati Meditations YOSA BUSON Hokku Buson’s Poetics Preface to Shoha’s Haiku Collection Japanese-Chinese Poetry Mourning the Old Sage Hokuju Spring Breeze on the Kema Embankment Haibun New Flower Gathering The Badger TAKEBE AYATARI Tales From this Time and That 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 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 On Poetry as Amusement On Choosing Words Tayasu Munetake My Views on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry Kamo no Mabuchi Another Reply to Tayasu Munetake KAMO NO MABUCHI Thoughts on Poetry MOTOORI NORINAGA A Small Boat Punting Through the Reeds My Personal View of Poetry The Essence of the Tale of Genji The Tale of Genji, a Small Jeweled Comb The Intentions of the Monogatari The Spirit of the Gods First Steps in the Mountains Chapter 16: Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion The Playboy Dialect Preface Live for Pleasure Alone! SANTO KYODEN Forty-Eight Techniques for Success with Courtesans The Tender-Loving Technique The True-Feeling Technique Chapter 17: Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books KOIKAWA HARUMACHI Mr Glitter ’n’ Gold’s Dream of Splendor Preface Book 1 Book 2 SANTO KYODEN Grilled and Basted Edo-Born Playboy Fast-Dyeing Mind Study Preface Chapter 18: Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners JIPPENSHA IKKU Travels on the Eastern Seaboard Journey’s Start Changed into a Fox The False Ikku SHIKITEI SANBA Floating-World Bathhouse The Larger Meaning Women’s Bath Chapter 19: Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction TAMENAGA SHUNSUI Spring-Color Plum Calendar Book 1 Book 2 Chapter 20: Gokan: Extended Picture Books RYUTEI TANEHIKO A Country Genji by a Commoner Murasaki Book 4 Chapter 21: Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki TSURUYA NANBOKU Ghost Stories at Yotsuya Chapter 22: Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited KYOKUTEI BAKIN The Eight Dog Chronicles Fusehime at Toyama Cave Fusehime’s Decision Shino in Otsuka Village Hamaji and Shino Chapter 23: Nativizing Poetry and Prose in Chinese YAMAMOTO HOKUZAN Thoughts on Composing Poetry On Spirit and Freshness The Conclusion KAN CHAZAN Kanshi: Reading a Book on a Winter Night RAI SANYO The Unofficial History of Japan Kusunoki Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen Kanshi On a Painting of Kenshin Attacking Shingen Stopping at Amakusa Sea Escorting my Mother Home: a Short Song for the Road RYOKAN Kanshi Chapter 24: The Miscellany MATSUDAIRA SADANOBU Blossoms and the Moon On Blossoms Leaving It to Heaven Study On Skies Clearing and Rain Falling Rain Comments Made by Bystanders On the Ainu Fox Stupidity Bugs in a Hawk Chapter 25: Early-Nineteenth-Century Haiku KOBAYASHI ISSA Journal of my Father’s Last Days Fourth Month, Twenty-third Day Fourth Month, Twenty-ninth Day Fifth Month, Second Day Fifth Month, Sixth Day Fifth Month, Thirteenth Day Fifth Month, Twentieth Day Hokku My Spring Orphan Giving the Breast A World of Dew Come What May Chapter 26: Waka in the Late Edo Period OZAWA ROAN Waka The Ancient Middle Road Through Furu Dust and Dirt Reed Sprouts Responses to Questions RYOKAN Waka KAGAWA KAGEKI Waka Topic Unknown Place Where They Sell Black Logs Objections to New Learning TACHIBANA AKEMI Waka Walking Around Watching the Miners Digging Gathered Ants OKUMA KOTOMICHI Waka Vespers A Pinwheel Words to Myself Chapter 27: Rakugo SANYUTEI ENCHO Peony Lantern Ghost Story Volume 5, part 12 English-Language Bibliography Index Permissions Other Works in the Columbia Asian Studies Series