A Historical and Ethnographical Investigation into the Making of the Nakanishi-dou Manuscripts

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  • 中西堂の実録写本
  • ナカニシドウ ノ ジツロク シャホン

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<p>In the library of Aichi Prefectural University there are several woodblock-printed manuscripts of the Edo Period which were originally possessed by Motoya-Ichirōbei, the owner of a bookstore named Nakanishi-dou. Little has been known about the author, the printmaker, and even the bookstore, but a person named Hobo, a wholesaler and headman of Ōkute in Mino Province, will provide a key to identifying the author and the bookstore because he played an important role in making the manuscripts. Probably the printmaker is Watanabe-Genshū, a poet and artist in Ōkute. Here I will give a sort of historical and ethnographical investigation into the process in which the works of literature and art were created in a local area in the late Edo Period.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 63 (10), 35-45, 2014-10-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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