The Three Seven Legends of Nanka Dream - The Three Seven Legends of Nanka Dream

Japanese: 三七全伝南柯夢 - さんしちぜんでんなんかのゆめ

A reading book from the late Edo period. Written by Takizawa Bakin. Illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai. 6 volumes, 7 books. Published in Bunka 5 (1808). Based on the famous love suicide between Minoya Sankatsu and Akaneya Hanshichi, which has been featured in matsuri-fuku and kabuki since early on, this novel incorporates elements of the Tang Dynasty's Nankoki. The story is set in the Eikyo era (1504-21) and in the household of Tsuzui Junsho, a feudal lord in Nara. Bakin changed the true story of Sankatsu Hanshichi's love suicide to end it with Sankatsu's birth mother Shikinami and Hanshichi's father Hanroku committing suicide in remorse to illustrate the idea of rewarding good and punishing evil, which he maintained as a philosophy in creating reading books.

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Japanese:

江戸時代後期の読本。滝沢馬琴作。葛飾北斎画。6巻7冊。文化5 (1808) 年刊。早くから祭文や歌舞伎に取上げられて有名な美濃屋三勝と赤根屋半七の情死事件を素材に，唐の『南柯記』の趣向などを取入れた小説。時代は永正年間 (1504～21) ，舞台は奈良の領主続井順昭の家中に設定されている。馬琴は，読本創作上の思想として堅持していた勧善懲悪の意を寓するため，三勝半七の情死という実説を改変し，三勝の生母敷浪と半七の父半六が悔恨の自殺をとげる結末とした。

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