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Author: Hayashi Razan 林-山, author
Title: (Eari 絵Oe) Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 [UkiyozShi 浮世草子], 5 Vols
Description: 1698. Hayashi Razan 林-山, author (Eari 絵oe) Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 [Ukiyozōshi 浮世草子], 5 vols. Edo & Kyoto Genroku -禄 11 [1698] 25.1 x 17.6 cm. String- bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. (Hayashi Razan 林-山 (1583-1657) was the Confucian tutor of the third Tokugawa shogun and translated the Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 from Chinese sources in 1627, adding some Japanese legendary material and domesticating the tales in general. It circulated in manuscript for most of the 17th century as a very influential literary genre source. It appears to have first been printed in Kyoto and Edo as this set was, in Genroku -禄 11 [1698]. This is the seminal work of the "spooky story" genre in Japan. Selected from a variety of tales, many of which used animals to represent failures in Neo-Confucian virtue, it served as a foundational element of the Kaidan genre in Japan. Kaidan 怪談, or "Monster Tales," fit in with tales of the Demi-Monde, the wonderful distorted humans of Toba-E 鳥羽絵, scatology, erotic shunga, shunga parodies and "mitate" 見立絵 (ukiyo-e parody pictures), which often reference the most sober and didactic East Asian cultural elements in a burlesque fashion. The purpose was some amalgam of eroticism, naughtiness, certainly humor, and perhaps just a touch of social commentary about the hypocrisies of any society. Disguised - as such criticism was not welcomed. Illustrated with b+w woodblock in the tradition of the ukiyo zshi 浮世草子. Our copy is a bit thumbed, but in a nice impression, with the original worn covers and printed paper title labels. All in a custom clasped chitsu case. .
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Title: (Eari 絵Oe) Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 [UkiyozShi 浮世草子], 5 Vols
Description: 1698. Hayashi Razan 林-山, author (Eari 絵oe) Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 [Ukiyozōshi 浮世草子], 5 vols. Edo & Kyoto Genroku -禄 11 [1698] 25.1 x 17.6 cm. String- bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. (Hayashi Razan 林-山 (1583-1657) was the Confucian tutor of the third Tokugawa shogun and translated the Kaidan Zensho 怪談-書 from Chinese sources in 1627, adding some Japanese legendary material and domesticating the tales in general. It circulated in manuscript for most of the 17th century as a very influential literary genre source. It appears to have first been printed in Kyoto and Edo as this set was, in Genroku -禄 11 [1698]. This is the seminal work of the "spooky story" genre in Japan. Selected from a variety of tales, many of which used animals to represent failures in Neo-Confucian virtue, it served as a foundational element of the Kaidan genre in Japan. Kaidan 怪談, or "Monster Tales," fit in with tales of the Demi-Monde, the wonderful distorted humans of Toba-E 鳥羽絵, scatology, erotic shunga, shunga parodies and "mitate" 見立絵 (ukiyo-e parody pictures), which often reference the most sober and didactic East Asian cultural elements in a burlesque fashion. The purpose was some amalgam of eroticism, naughtiness, certainly humor, and perhaps just a touch of social commentary about the hypocrisies of any society. Disguised - as such criticism was not welcomed. Illustrated with b+w woodblock in the tradition of the ukiyo zshi 浮世草子. Our copy is a bit thumbed, but in a nice impression, with the original worn covers and printed paper title labels. All in a custom clasped chitsu case. .
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Price: US$ 3500.00 Seller: Boston Book Company
- Book number: 89955
- Book number: 89955
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