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
53 - The birth of kokkeibon (comic novellas)
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
The genre known as kokkeibon or comic novellas emerged in the aftermath of the Kansei Reforms. Before the reforms, the field of popular fiction had been dominated by two genres: the dialogue-based sharebon and the illustrated kibyoshi. Jippensha Ikku made his debut in popular fiction as a writer of kibyoshi under the patronage of the powerful publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo. Murataya Jirobe had organized an otoshi-banashi club in which Ikku had participated, collecting the comic tales presented at the meetings for publication in the form of hanashibon and kibyoshi. The dialogue between the protagonists that carries the story resembles the narrative technique found in sharebon, a genre in which Ikku had written extensively. Ikku drew his humorous content from a wide variety of sources, including kyogen plays and classic comic stories. The other major kokkeibon author was Shikitei Sanba. Sanba's first work in the genre was a collaboration with Santo Kyoden on a kokkeibon titled Kyogen kigo.
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- The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature , pp. 523 - 531Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015