The Models for the Characters of Tada-Nanrei’s “Ukiyo-zōshi” Stories

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  • 多田南嶺浮世草子におけるモデル
  • 多田南嶺浮世草子におけるモデル : 古義堂との関わりを踏まえて
  • タダ ナンレイ ウキヨゾウシ ニ オケル モデル : コギドウ ト ノ カカワリ オ フマエテ
  • The Author’s Relation to the Kogidō School
  • ―古義堂との関わりを踏まえて―

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Abstract

Tada-Nanrei was a writer of “ukiyo-zōshi” illustrated books in the Edo Period. As he was also a devout Shintoist, little attention is paid to his relation to Kogidō, the Confucian school in Kyoto, because of their difference in religious faith. In his journal Shoken-chō, however, Itō-Tōgai, one of the school’s members, says that he introduced Nanrei to his acquaintances as his own pupil. Indeed some characters in his stories were modelled after Suyama-Nantō, Kagawa-Shūan, Hori-Nanko, Sawada-Issai, and other Confucian scholars. The critical view Tōgai’s brother Baiu had about Yamazaki-Ansai in his collection of essays Kenmon-dansō was also reflected in Nanrei’s literary and prosaic writings. Biographical research is thus indispensable in studying Nanrei’s works. By identifying the actual models and then grasping the readership whom the author must have born in his mind in writing them, we can make more correct interpretations of his texts.

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  • Kinsei Bungei

    Kinsei Bungei 109 (0), 1-10, 2019

    Nihon kinsei bungaku kai (The Japanese Early Modern Literature Association)

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