Takesai - Chikusai

A kana zoshi from the early Edo period. Written by Tomiyama Doya. Two volumes. Completed and published between 1621 (Genwa 7) and 1623. Tomiyama Doya (1584-1634) was a doctor under Manase Gensaku. The story is about Takesai, a quack doctor living in Kyoto, who gives up on his life with no patients and decides to go on a pilgrimage around the country with his servant Niminosuke. First, he visits the famous historical sites of Kyoto to see them one last time, then travels down the Tokaido and lives in Nagoya for three years, where he tries a strange cure but fails. He then sets off again and arrives in Edo, where he tours the city and then wishes to settle down. It is a parody based on kyoka-like ideas in terms of character setting, development, and rhetoric, and was widely read at the time, leading to many imitations being published. It also became the prototype for famous place records such as "Tōkaidō Meisho-ki."

[Kouta Sakamaki]

"Appreciation of Japanese Classical Literature 26: Otogi-zoshi and Kana-zoshi" edited by Ichiko Sadatsugu and Noma Mitsutatsu (1976, Kadokawa Shoten)

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江戸初期の仮名草子。富山道冶(とみやまどうや)作。上下二巻。1621年（元和7）から23年までの成立刊行。富山道冶（1584―1634）は曲直瀬玄朔(まなせげんさく)門下の医者。本書は、京都に住む藪(やぶ)医者の竹斎が患者もこない生活に見切りをつけ、下僕のにらみの介(すけ)と諸国行脚(あんぎゃ)を思い立ち、まず見納めにと京の名所旧跡を巡ったのち東海道を下り、名古屋に3年間住み、ここで珍妙な療治をして失敗、ふたたび旅に出て江戸に着き、市内を巡覧したのち定住を願うという筋である。人物設定、展開、修辞など狂歌的発想によるパロディーで、当時広く読まれ、模倣作が多く刊行された。また『東海道名所記』など名所記物の原型となった。

［坂巻甲太］

『市古貞次・野間光辰編『鑑賞日本古典文学26　御伽草子・仮名草子』（1976・角川書店）』

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