Kameoka Sozan

...Unpublished manuscript (later reprinted). When Genpaku was shown by his grandson an account of the Meireki fire written by Kameoka Sozan, a stonemason who was a supplier to the Obama domain, he followed the example of Kamo no Chomei's Hojoki and used Sozan's posthumous manuscript as the first volume, and continued to write about subsequent natural disasters in the second and subsequent volumes, concluding with an article cheering for Matsudaira Sadanobu's appointment as senior councilor in 1787 (Tenmei 7). A book that uses sharp satire and humor to comment on the state of society. ...

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…未刊写本(のち翻刻)。小浜藩用達の石屋亀岡宗山が記した明暦大火の記事を，その孫に見せられた玄白が，鴨長明の《方丈記》にならい，宗山の遺稿を上巻とし，中巻以下にその後の天変地異を書き継ぎ，1787年(天明7)松平定信の老中就任に万歳を唱える記事で終わる。鋭利な風刺のうちに滑稽と皮肉をもって世相を論評した書。…

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