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A joke book. Published in 1770 (Meiwa 7). Written by Muchu Sanjin Negoto sensei. This is the first joke book to describe Fukagawa, a representative pleasure quarter of Edo along with Yoshiwara. Jorai, a half-way savvy samurai, boasts of his knowledge and guides the country samurai Shingozaemon to a small flower shop in front of Fukagawa Hachiman, where his half-way knowledge is completely exposed. The story is told in contrast to Shiko, a fellow visitor to Fukagawa, and includes explanations of the common sayings and popular phrases of Fukagawa, incorporating many elements of the "ugachi" style that would later become the mainstream of joke books. It also had a major influence on the creation of "Kinkin Sensei Eiga no Yume" (1775), the first yellow-covered book.

[Masahiro Tanahashi]

"Mizuno Minoru's annotated "Japanese Classical Literature Series 59: Yellow-covered Sharehon Collection" (1958, Iwanami Shoten)" ▽ "Mizuno Minoru et al., eds. "Sharehon Taisei 4" (1979, Chuokoron-Shinsha)"

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洒落本(しゃれぼん)。1770年（明和7）刊。夢中散人寝言(むちゅうさんじんねごと)先生作。吉原と並ぶ江戸の代表的遊里深川を描写した最初の洒落本。半可通の武士如雷(じょらい)は、通人ぶりを盛んに吹聴しながら、田舎(いなか)侍新五左衛門を案内して深川八幡(はちまん)前の小花屋(おばなや)に登楼するが、そこで半可通をすっかり暴露される。同じく深川に遊ぶ通客志厚(しこう)と対照させて描写は進み、深川の通言、流行語の説明を加えるなど、後の洒落本の主流となる「うがち」の要素を多分に備えている。なお洒落本に限らず、黄表紙の嚆矢(こうし)『金々先生栄花夢(きんきんせんせいえいがのゆめ)』（1775）の成立にも大きな影響を与えている。

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『水野稔校注『日本古典文学大系59　黄表紙・洒落本集』（1958・岩波書店）』▽『水野稔他編『洒落本大成4』（1979・中央公論社）』

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