Yūshi Hōgen an eighteenth-century Japanese farce
This book is an annotated scholarly study of the Japanese literary text Yūshi hōgen (1770) accompanied by an English translation of that text, Yūshi hōgen belongs to a genre called sharebon (‘books for the stylish’), which flourished in Japan between mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Th...
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Lewiston, Lampeter
The Edwin Mellen Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This book is an annotated scholarly study of the Japanese literary text Yūshi hōgen (1770) accompanied by an English translation of that text, Yūshi hōgen belongs to a genre called sharebon (‘books for the stylish’), which flourished in Japan between mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. These were short texts, produced as booklets, which consisted mostly of dialogue and concerned pleasure-quarter culture. They examined the behavior of male visitors to a brothel and purported to advise the would –be ‘sophisticate” on how to conduct himself from start to finish of his pleasure excursion. |
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| Beschreibung: | v, 148 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1495504891 1-4955-0489-1 9781495504891 978-1-4955-0489-1 |