"Kamakura Shogeisode Nikki" - Kamakura Shogeisode Nikki

Japanese: 《鎌倉諸芸袖日記》 - かまくらしょげいそでにっき

...The popularity of theater attracted the attention of the public, and he was able to incorporate samurai morality and elaborate his works, producing many works up until his death in 1735 (Kyoho 20). Next came Tada Nanrei (died 1750), who produced many period pieces, including his excellent novel Kamakura Shogeisode Nikki (Diary of Various Arts in Kamakura) (1743). Many of Nanrei's works were published by Hachimonjiya in Kyoto, and thanks to the business acumen of his master Hachizaemon, they dominated the world of novels, and these works are known as Hachimonjiya books....

From [Temperament]

...Ejima Kiseki's "The Spirit of a Man in the World" (1715), "The Spirit of a Girl in the World" (1717), and "The Spirit of a Man in the World" (1720) were early works, and they are skillful collections of short stories that exaggerate the manifestations of sexual tendencies characteristic of different genders and ages, and are different in perspective from Saikaku's town figures. Later, Tada Nanrei's "The Diary of Various Arts in the Kamakura" (1743) was a fine work of ironic and unrestrained expression of social observation, and Wayaku Taro's (Ueda Akinari) "The World Monkeys Who Hear the Ears of Various Paths" (1766) and "The Spirit of a Concubine in the World" (1767) are outstanding works for their unique observational skills and skillful composition. In the world of ukiyo-zoshi from the 1760s to the end of the 1780s, temperamental stories were in vogue, and many were written by Nagaido Kametomo, Nakarai Kinryo, Taigasha Kiho, and others, but most of them were mediocre works that depicted extremely biased tendencies and were simply made up as a collection of stories.

*Some of the terminology used in "Kamakura Shogei Sode Nikki" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…演劇の人気で世人の関心をひき，武士的道義を盛り込んだうえに趣向をこらすことができ，没年1735年(享保20)に至るまで多くの作がある。次いで多田南嶺（なんれい）(1750没)に時代物の作が多く，気質物《鎌倉諸芸袖日記》(1743)は佳作。其磧，南嶺の作の多くは京都の八文字屋から刊行，主人八左衛門の商才もあって小説界を制圧，これを〈八文字屋本〉という。…

【気質物】より

…江島其磧（きせき）の《世間子息（むすこ）気質》(1715)，《世間娘気質》(1717)，《浮世親仁形気》(1720)が初期の作で，性別･年齢別に特徴的な性癖の発現を誇張して描き，西鶴の町人物などとは視角を変えた巧みな短編集となっている。その後，多田南嶺の《鎌倉諸芸袖日記》(1743)という社会観察の皮肉さと奔放な表現の佳作があり，和訳（わやく）太郎(上田秋成)の《諸道聴耳（ききみみ）世間猿》(1766)，《世間妾（てかけ）形気》(1767)は観察眼の特異さと構成の巧みさで抜群の作。1760‐80年代の末期の浮世草子界は気質物が流行し，永井堂亀友に作が多く，半井（なからい）金陵，大雅舎其鳳（きほう）などの作もあるが，極端に偏頗（へんぱ）な性癖を描き，また単なる類集形式として安易に仕立てた凡作が多い。…

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