Two ways to buy a beautiful woman - Keiseikai Futasujimichi

A sharebon (Japanese comedy book). One volume. Written by Umebori Kokuga. Illustrations by Sekka. Published in 1798 (Kansei 10). The title of the book is derived from the preface, which reads, "The excesses of a playboy are as if they cannot compare to the gentleness of an ugly man," and is meant to depict the two strands of excess and sincerity in the pleasure quarters. Divided into two parts, "Summer Bed" is about a pretentious and brazen playboy who is eventually rejected by a prostitute, and "Winter Bed" is about a middle-aged, ugly man named Bunri who wins the heart of a familiar prostitute, Hitoe, whom he has hated for three years, because of his sincerity, and they become close. Unlike the conventional sharebon that depicted relationships, this work depicts the triumph of sincerity in the pleasure quarters, and determined the style of subsequent sharebon. The content of "Summer Bed" is completed in the second part, "Habits of the Red Light District" (1799), and the third part, "The Ordinary Days" (1800).

[Goya Jinbo]

"Complete Collection of Japanese Classical Literature 47: Sharebon, Koubyoubon, Ninkyobon" (1971, Shogakukan) edited by Nakano Mitsutoshi and others, "Complete Collection of Japanese Classical Literature 47: Sharebon, Koubyoubon, Ninkyobon" (1958, Iwanami Shoten) edited by Mizuno Minoru"

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洒落本(しゃれぼん)。1冊。梅暮里谷峨(うめぼりこくが)著。雪華画。1798年（寛政10）刊。書名は自序に「遊冶郎(いろをとこ)の乖功(ゆきすぎ)は醜夫(ぶをとこ)の温柔(うちば)には猶(なほ)及ばざるがごとし」とあり、遊里における行きすぎと誠実の二筋を描く意である。2部に分かれ、「夏の床」はきざでずうずうしい色男が結局遊女に振られ、「冬の床」は中年の醜男文里(ぶおとこぶんり)が、3年越しに嫌い抜かれていたなじみの遊女一重(ひとえ)の心を、その誠実さからつかんで深い仲となるというもので、通(つう)を描く従来の洒落本と違って、遊里における真情の勝利を描いたものとして、以後の洒落本の作風を決定した作品である。「夏の床」の内容は、後編『廓(さと)の癖(くせ)』（1799）、三編『宵(よい)の程(ほど)』（1800）に至って完結している。

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