A Kamigata Anthology : : Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600–1750 / / ed. by Kenji Watanabe, Sumie Jones, Adam L. Kern.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bashō, Matsuo,; Bolitho, Harold,; Bonchō, Nozawa,; Budayū, Hara,; Burk, Stefania,; Buzaemon, Shikano,; Campbell, Robert,; Cannell, David,; Chinseki, Hamada,; Chozan, Issai,; Crowley, Cheryl,; Cummings, Alan,; Ensai, Urushiya,; Fox, Charles,; Fraleigh, Matthew,; Fusanobu, Tomikawa,; Geki, Satsumanojō,; Gerstle, C. Andrew,; Hachirōemon, Kon,; Hare, Thomas,; Hibbett, Howard,; Hikohachi, Yonezawa,; Hokka, Yamazaki,; Jones, Sumie,; Kabat, Adam,; Kenjū, Iwamoto,; Kern, Adam L.,; Kikaku, Enomoto,; Kiseki, Ejima,; Kiun, Nakagawa,; Kyokusui, Suganuma,; Kyorai, Mukai,; Kōa, Jōkanbō,; McGee, Dylan,; Mitsuhiro, Karasumaru,; Monzaemon, Chikamatsu,; No Gorobē, Tsuyu,; No Gorō, Tsuyu,; Nobuhiro, Konoe,; Pflugfelder, Gregory,; Quinn, Shelley Fenno,; Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza,; Rubin, Jay,; Ryōi, Asai,; Saikaku, Ihara,; Schalow, Paul Gordon,; Senryō, Kikuoka,; Sitkin, David,; Smith, Henry D.,; Solt, John,; Takahashi, Toru,; Walley, Glynne,; Wills, Steven,; Yonemoto, Marcia,; Yūzan, Daidōji,
• HerausgeberIn: Jones, Sumie,; Kern, Adam L.,; Watanabe, Kenji,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 14 color, 125 b&w illustrations

This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois cult...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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