Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
40 - A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
from Part IV - The Edo period (1600–1867)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2016
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Book part
- A note on Romanization and conventions
- Glossary
- General introduction
- Part I The ancient period (beginnings to 794)
- Part II The Heian period (794–1185)
- Part III The medieval period (1185–1600)
- Part IV The Edo period (1600–1867)
- 38 Introduction to early modern Japanese literature
- 39 Publishing and the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 40 A forest of books: seventeenth-century Kamigata commercial prose
- 41 The rise of haikai: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa
- 42 Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki: the literature of urban townspeople
- 43 Representing theater: text and performance in kabuki and bunraku
- 44 Puppet theater: from early jōruri to the golden age
- 45 From the beginnings of kabuki to the playwrights Nanboku and Mokuami
- 46 Early to mid-Edo kanshi
- 47 Kanshibun in the late Edo period
- 48 Waka practice and poetics in the Edo period
- 49 Literary thought in Confucian ancient learning and Kokugaku
- 50 Bunjin (literati) and early yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teishō, Ayatari, and Akinari
- 51 Satiric poetry: Kyōshi, Kyōka, and Senryū
- 52 Picture books: from akahon to kibyōshi and gōkan
- 53 The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
- 54 Ninjōbon and romances for women
- 55 Development of the late yomihon: Santō Kyōden and Kyokutei Bakin
- Part V The modern period (1868 to present)
- Bibliography of English secondary sources and translations
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the issues of seventeenth-century literature, by examining its contents and features, and by reflecting on its legacy throughout the early modern period. It also discusses catalogues of Nyoraishi. Nyoraishi always conveys his message by making extensive intertextual use of Japanese classical works, Chinese texts, and Confucian works. As encountered in the 1670 book-trade catalogue, the category of washo comprises didactic literature that dispensed knowledge. Other categories created in the 1670 catalogue and developed through the Edo period are hanashibon and Japanese-language Buddhist texts known as kana hogo. The main aim of kana hogo is to popularize Buddhist knowledge. A final category that developed in the seventeenth century and was included in the 1685 catalogue is that of koshokubon and rakuji. A patchwork category that plays a central role in seventeenth-century Kamigata popular prose is that of the soshi. In the 1670 catalogue, this contains a high percentage of tales composed in the Muromachi period.
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- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature , pp. 396 - 402Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015