Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

1376 Pages·2004·28.58 MB·English

by  Haruo Shirane

Early Modern Japanese Literature
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
Translations from the Asian Classics
EDITORIAL BOARD
Wm. Theodore de Bary, Chairman
Paul Anderer
Irene Bloom
Donald Keene
George A. Saliba
Haruo Shirane
David D. W. Wang
Burton Watson
Early Modern Japanese Literature
AN ANTHOLOGY, 1600–1900
Edited with Introductions and Commentary by Haruo Shirane
TRANSLATORS
James Brandon, Michael Brownstein, Patrick Caddeau, Caryl Ann Callahan, Steven Carter,
Anthony Chambers, Cheryl Crowley, Chris Drake, Peter Flueckiger, Charles Fox, C. Andrew
Gerstle, Thomas Harper, Robert Huey, Donald Keene, Richard Lane, Lawrence Marceau, Andrew
Markus, Herschel Miller, Maryellen Toman Mori, Jamie Newhard, Mark Oshima, Edward Putzar,
Peipei Qiu, Satoru Saito, Tomoko Sakomura, G. W. Sargent, Thomas Satchell, Paul Schalow,
Haruo Shirane, Jack Stoneman, Makoto Ueda, Burton Watson
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CONTENTS
Preface
Historical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters

1. Early Modern Japan
The Shōgunate and the Domains
The Social Hierarchy
The Economy and the Three Cities
The Licensed Quarters
The Courtesans and Female Entertainers
Literacy, Scholarship, and Printing
Women, Readership, and Literature
Warrior and Urban Commoner Attitudes
Popular and Elite Literatures
Periodization
2. Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture
Parodies
The Dog Pillow Book (Inu makura)
Fake Tales (Nise monogatari)
Edict Against Christianity
Humorous Stories
Today’s Tales of Yesterday (Kinō wa kyō no monogatari)
Dangerous Things in the World
The Woman Who Cut Off Her Nose
Asai Ryōi
Tales of the Floating World (Ukiyo monogatari)
Preface
Regarding Advice Against Wenching
Hand Puppets (Otogi bōko)
The Peony Lantern
Military Stories
O-An’s Stories (Oan monogatari)
3. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World
Ihara Saikaku
Life of a Sensuous Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko)
Putting Out the Light, Love Begins
Afterward “Honored” Is Added to Their Names
Aids to Lovemaking: Sailing to the Island of Women
Saikaku’s Tales from Various Provinces (Saikaku shokokubanashi)
The Umbrella Oracle
Five Sensuous Women (Kōshoku gonin onna)
The Calendar Maker’s Wife
Life of a Sensuous Woman (Kōshoku ichidai onna)
An Old Woman’s Hermitage
Mistress of a Domain Lord
A Monk’s Wife in a Worldly Temple
A Teacher of Calligraphy and Manners
A Stylish Woman Who Brought Disaster
Ink Painting in a Sensual Robe
Luxurious Dream of a Man
Streetwalker with a False Voice
Five Hundred Disciples of the Buddha—I’d Known Them All
Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku ōkagami)
Though Bearing an Umbrella
Tales of Samurai Duty (Bukegiri monogatari)
In Death They Share the Same Wave Pillow
Japan’s Eternal Storehouse (Nippon eitaigura)
In the Past, on Credit, Now Cash Down
The Foremost Lodger in the Land
A Feather in Daikoku’s Cap
All the Goodness Gone from Tea
Worldly Mental Calculations (Seken munezan’yō)
In Our Impermanent World, Even Doorposts Are Borrowed
His Dream Form Is Gold Coins
Holy Man Heitarō
Ejima Kiseki and the Hachimonjiya
Characters of Old Men in the Floating World (Ukiyo oyaji katagi)
A Money-Loving, Loan-Sharking Old Man
4. Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics
Matsunaga Teitoku and the Teimon School
Kitamura Kigin
The Mountain Well (Yama no i)
Fireflies
Nishiyama Sōin and Danrin Haikai
Okanishi Ichū
Haikai Primer (Haikai mōgyū)
5. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashō
Bashō and the Art of Haikai
Hokku
Composing Haiku
Combining
Intermediaries
Single-Object Poetry
Greetings
Overtones
The Art of Linked Verse
Reverberation Link
Status Link
Withering Gusts (Kogarashi)
Plum Blossom Scent (Ume ga ka)
The Poetics of Haiku
Awakening to the High, Returning to the Low
Following the Creative
Object and Self as One
Unchanging and Ever-Changing
Haibun
The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling (Genjūan no ki)
Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi)
6. Chikamatsu Monzaemon and the Puppet Theater
Early Jōruri and Kabuki
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki shinjū)
The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Horikawa nami no tsutsumi)
The Battles of Coxinga (Kokusenya kassen)
The Heike and the Island of Women (Heike nyogo no shima)
The Love Suicides at Amijima (Shinjū ten no Amijima)
Hozumi Ikan
Souvenirs of Naniwa (Naniwa miyage)
7. Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives
Song Confucianism
Nakae Tōju
Dialogue with the Elder (Okina mondō)
On the Virtue of Filial Piety
Confucian Views of Literature
Yamazaki Ansai
Japanese Lesser Learning (Yamato shōgaku)
Ando Tameakira
Seven Essays on Murasaki Shikibu (Shika shichiron)
The Intentions of the Author
Chinese Studies and Literary Perspectives
Itō Jinsai
The Meaning of Words in the Analects and the Mencius (Gomō jigi)