Kannatei Onitake

Japanese: 感和亭鬼武 - かんなてい・おにたけ

Years of birth: Years of birth and death unknown. A comic writer from the late Edo period. According to Mitamura Engyo's theory, he died on February 21, 1818 (March 27, 1818), at the age of 59. In the early years of the Kansei era (around 1789), he worked as a clerk for the Kuwaori magistrate Kishimoto and called himself Maeno Manshichiro, but later served the Hitotsubashi family and became a retainer. At the same time, he became a student of Santo Kyoden, and enjoyed kyoka and gekijyo. He gradually expanded from compiling and writing kyoka anthologies and rakugo books, and his most popular works are said to be the first and second parts of the reading book "Jiraiya Setsuba" (1806, July boards) and the humorous book "Akiyo Semono Manami Kyukancho" (1805-09). As usual, Takizawa Bakin wrote bad things about him in "Edo Sakusha Burui," but he also wrote a unique work, "Kokuji Shi Kaidai," published in Bunka 1 (1804), which showed how to write so-called kana poetry, so he should not be looked down upon so generally.

(Mitsutoshi Nakano)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
江戸後期の戯作者。三田村鳶魚の説によれば没年は文政1年2月21日(1818年3月27日),享年59歳。寛政初年(1789年ごろ)は桑折代官岸本氏の手代を勤め,前野満七郎と名乗るが,その後一橋家に仕えて御家人となる。傍ら,山東京伝の門人となり,狂歌,戯作に遊び,狂歌集や噺本の編著から次第に手を広げて,読本の『自来也説話』前後編(1806,7板)や,滑稽本『有喜世物真似旧観帖』(1805～09)などが最も当たり作となったといわれる。例によって滝沢馬琴は『江戸作者部類』に悪口を記しているが,変わった著述では文化1(1804)年刊の『国字詩階梯』があり,いわゆる仮名詩の作法を示すなど,そう一概には見下せない作者というべきであろう。<参考文献>鈴木俊幸「寛政期の鬼武」(『近世文芸』44号)

(中野三敏)

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