Shikitei Sanba

Shikitei Samba (Japanese式 亭 三 马; * 1776 in Edo (now Tokyo), † February 27, 1822 ) was a Japanese Gesaku writer.

Name

His real name was Taisuke Kikuchi (菊 地 泰 辅). His coming of age Name ( Azaña ) was Hisanori (久 徳). He was also known as Nishimiya Tasuke (西宫 太 助) known and used for its Gesaku works a number of other pseudonyms, as Yūgidō (游戏 堂), Shiki Sanjin (四季 山人) Honchōan (本 町 庵) Sharakusai (洒落 斎) Kokkeidō (滑稽 堂), Gesakusha (戏 作 舎) and others.

Life

Shikiteis ancestors but Shinto priests on Hachijo -jima, his father had for generations the woodcutter Kikuchi Mohe (菊 地 茂 兵卫) in Tawaramachi, Asakusa, Edo (now Kaminarimon, Taitō ). At the age of nine, he began to work at a bookstore and did so until he was seventeen. Then he brought his first works in 1794, the Kibyōshi Tendō ukiyo suiseisō (天道 浮世 出 星 操) and Ningen isshin shitaisō (人间 一心 覗 替 缲) out.

Shikitei written works of various genres Gesaku, but was best known as Kibyōshi and Kokkeibon author. As Kibyōshi -author he used the particular illustrated Gokan, often represented an adaptation of Kabuki or Jōruri - plays. Around the turn of the century came the three theater books Yakusha gakuyatsū (1799 ), Yakusha sangaikyō (1801 ) and Shibai kinmōzui (1803 ), all illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni.

He became famous primarily by two humorous Kokkeibon works: the four-part Ukiyoburo (浮世 风 吕, " the bathhouse of the floating world "), which authored 1809-1813, and Ukiyodoko (浮世 床, " the barber floating world" ), which in connection was established.

Swell

  • Barbara Cross: Representing Performance in Japanese Fiction: Sikitei Sanba ( 1776-1822 ). In: SOAS Literary Review AHRB Centre Special Issue. 2004 ( PDF).
  • Author
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature (18th century)
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Man
  • Born in 1776
  • Died in 1822
  • Pseudonym
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