The was a pre-modern Japanese literary genre. Texts were written in a humorous, satirical sermon-style with the purpose of educating the masses. It is type of
gesaku
is an alternative style, genre, or school of Japanese literature. In the simplest contemporary sense, any literary work of a playful, mocking, joking, silly or frivolous nature may be called gesaku. Unlike predecessors in the literary field, gesak ...
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Developments
and are credited with establishing the early foundations upon which the genre rests. In 1715, Masuho wrote , and in 1727 Issai wrote . These two texts are early forerunners of the genre. However, the genre is not fully realized until several decades later. In 1752, wrote , which is identified as the first true example of the dangibon genre.
The genre existed between the 1752 c. 1800, reaching "the height of their popularity in the 1750s."
[Keene (1976: 412)] It gradually evolved into the
kokkeibon
The was a genre and type of early modern Japanese novel. It came into being late in the Edo period during the 19th century. As a genre, it depicted the comical behavior occurring in commoners' daily lives.
The ''kokkeibon'' genre is the successo ...
genre at the start of the 19th century.
Major works
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See also
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Hiraga Gennai
was a Japanese polymath and ''rōnin'' of the Edo period. Gennai was a Pharmacology, pharmacologist, student of ''Rangaku'', physician, author, painter and inventor well known for his ''Elekiter, Erekiteru'' (electrostatic generator), ''Kandan ...
, one of the major dangibon authors.
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, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
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Waseda University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902.
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