Tsugensou Magaki

A humorous story published in 1787 (Tenmei 7). Written by Santo Tokyoden and illustrated by Santo Keiko. The title Sori means "big shop" in Yoshiwara, and the book depicts the language and customs of the large Yoshiwara store Matsubaya as a backdrop. The book reintroduces three characters from the yellow-covered Edo Raw Glamorous Birthstones published two years earlier, Enjiro, Kitazato Kinosuke, and Warui Shian, and begins with them discussing the latest trends and gossip in the pleasure quarters at Kinosuke's home. Eventually, the three of them go out together to Yoshiwara Matsudaya, where Enjiro is treated coldly by Osukawa, Shian gets drunk, and Kinosuke is treated well, depicting the world of pleasure for each of the three characters. Although the concept is already a type of sharebon, a refined aesthetic sensibility permeates the entire work, and the thorough realism in every detail could only have been possible from Kyoden, a frequenter of the pleasure quarters, making this a masterpiece that represents the pinnacle of the realistic tendency of sharebon.

[Masahiro Tanahashi]

"Mizuno Minoru's annotated collection of Japanese classical literature, No. 59, Yellow cover story collection" (1958, Iwanami Shoten)

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洒落本(しゃれぼん)。1787年（天明7）刊。山東京伝作、山東鶏告(けいこう)画。書名の総籬は吉原の大店(おおみせ)の意で、吉原の大店松葉屋の世界を背景にその言語、風俗を描出している。前々年刊行の黄表紙『江戸生艶気樺焼(えどうまれうわきのかばやき)』中の人物艶次郎(えんじろう)、北里喜之介(きたりきのすけ)、悪井志庵(わるいしあん)の3人を再登場させ、喜之介の自宅で遊里の最新の流行やうわさ話を展開する発端から、やがて3人がそろって吉原松田屋に出かけ、艶次郎はおす川に冷遇され、志庵は酔いつぶれ、喜之介は厚遇される三人三様の遊びの世界を描く。構想はすでに洒落本の類型ではあるが、洗練された唯美的な感覚が全編を貫き、細部にわたる徹底した写実の姿勢は、遊里通の京伝をして初めて可能なことであり、洒落本の写実的傾向の頂点にたつ代表作である。

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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）』

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