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Gōkan
(合巻) is a variety of Japanese woodblock printed literature under the broader category of picture books known as ' (草双紙) produced during the late Edo period from circa 1805 to the late nineteenth century. It is a successor of (黄表紙), which featured adult themes that changed significantly in content and style following censorship imposed by the Kansei Reforms. However, in physical form and production much remained the same between the two, such as large images with whitespace filled with narrative text and dialogue composed largely of kana. are typically much lengthier works than their predecessors, with the longest extant example being , which contains ninety chapters produced between 1849 and 1885. Because of the lengthy nature of the works, individual books were often gathered together and bound into larger volumes, which is reflected in the Japanese term for the genre (lit. "bound volume"). , along with the rest of the varieties, belong to the literary genre of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kusazōshi
is a term that covers various genres of popular woodblock-printed illustrated literature during the Japanese Edo period (1600–1868) and early Meiji period. These works were published in the city of Edo (modern Tokyo). In its widest sense, the term includes the genres of , , , and ; in the narrow sense it may refer uniquely to .Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagari and Robert E. Morrell, ''The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature'' (286): Princeton University Press, 1985 belong to the group of works of popular fiction known as . Early (up to ) Characteristics of early The term ''early'' usually refers to , and , all of which were published before 1775. At this period the pictures were considered to be of more importance than text. The text itself was mainly written in hiragana, although some kanji also appear. These early works are not of a high literary value, and are often derivative. However, they are often of interest to scholars from other fields as they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji
, translated variously as ''The Rustic Genji'', ''False Murasaki and a Country Genji'', or ''A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin Genji'', is a late-Edo period Japanese literature, Japanese literary parody of the ''Tale of Genji'' by Murasaki Shikibu. The work, by (1783–1842) with illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, was published in a Woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock edition between 1829 and 1842 by Senkakudō. The parody shifts the time-frame from the Heian period to the Muromachi period, and replaces inserted Waka (poetry), waka poetry with haiku. It was the best-selling example of the genre known as , a popular literary form that merged image with text. The plot centres on the outlandish adventures of Ashikaga Mitsuuji, second son of Ashikaga Yoshimasa, while seeking to recover a stolen sword, mirror, and poem, upon which the security of the realm depend. The preface to the first chapter introduces the character Ōfuji, whose nickname is Murasaki Shikibu. In the preface to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
