Study of Shin Kashoki, volumes 3-5, Hojo Sadatoki, the ninth regent of the bakufu and the Einin no Tokuseirei, the Shimotsuki Incident, and the Heizenmon Incident

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  • 『新可笑記』巻三の五「取りやりなしに天下徳政」の検討―鎌倉幕府第九代執権北条貞時と永仁の徳政令・霜月騒動・平禅門の乱―

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In this paper, I examine the three-layered structure of Shin Kashoki, volumes 3-5 in a reconsideration of the conventional views on its sources. Regarding Einin no Tokuseirei, I find that the account comes directly from the Aitai Sumashi Rei （Mutual Settlement Decree）, concluded in the first year of Kanbun （1661）. Ihara Saikaku repeatedly uses plot reversals in narrating anecdotes about Guo Ju, the subject of the story, as stories about the growth of his son. I also discuss the third layer, the anecdote of Hojo Sadatoki, as a multilayered world. In Volume 3, Saikaku presents an anecdote regarding the regents of the Kamakura Shogunate. Rather than criticizing the regents of Hojo, Saikaku praises them for their excellence as chief retainers of management. This provides an image of the Kamakura period as a beautiful and good time now in the past. Volume 3 constitutes a series of warlord anecdotes of this type.

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