World affairs record - Sejikenbunroku

Also called "Sejikenmonroku," this is a book of social criticism written in the late Edo period. It has 7 volumes. It was written around 1816 (Bunka 13). The author is said to have been a Buyoinshi (hermit) living in Edo, but the author is unknown. The book divides the topics into "samurai, peasants, temple and shrine practitioners, medical practice, Onmyodo (Onmyodo), the blind, lawsuits for public affairs, townspeople, prostitutes in red light districts, Kabuki, rice, miscellaneous grains, and other products, the divine land of Japan, those who died untimely deaths, and the affairs of the common people," and provides scathing criticism of each of them, but its stance is restorationist. It is used by researchers as a book that can provide information on the actual living conditions of various social classes, including the conditions of villages and Edo in the late Edo period. It is included in "Early Modern Social and Economic Series" 1, "Nihon Keizai Series" 3 and 4, and "Nihon Shomin Seikatsu Shiryo Shusei" 8.

[Michio Aoki]

"The Records of the World's Observations, edited by Honjo Eijiro and commented by Takikawa Masajiro (1966, Seigabo)"

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「せじけんもんろく」ともいう。江戸時代後期に書かれた社会批判の書。7巻。1816年（文化13）ごろに書かれた。著者は江戸に住む武陽隠士(ぶよういんし)とあるが、不明。「武士、百姓、寺社人、医業、陰陽道(おんみょうどう)、盲人、公事(くじ)訴訟、町人、遊里売女(ばいた)、歌舞伎(かぶき)、米穀雑穀其外(そのほか)諸産物、日本神国、非命に死せる者、土民君の事」などに分け、それぞれについて痛烈な批評を加えているが、立場は復古的である。江戸後期の村落や江戸の状況などをはじめ社会各層の生活実態を知ることのできる著として研究者らに活用されている。『近世社会経済叢書(そうしょ)』1、『日本経済叢書』3・4、『日本庶民生活史料集成』8所収。

［青木美智男］

『本庄栄治郎校訂、滝川政次郎解説『世事見聞録』（1966・青蛙房）』

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