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Essays and excerpts by Ota Nanpo (Shokusanjin). Six of the original 56 volumes handwritten by himself have been lost, but the work has been largely restored thanks to the addition of a typeset book compiled from various manuscripts (volume 40 is missing). Reflecting Nanpo's work as a shogunate official from his 20s to 70s, his life as a man of letters, his voracious reading ability and wide-ranging desire for knowledge, the content is diverse and rich, and there were many requests to borrow the works during his lifetime, and many copies were made. This is one of Nanpo's most representative essays, and a typical essay that sparked the popularity of the so-called Edo essays.

[Yoshiichiro Hamada]

"The Complete Collection of Japanese Essays, Volumes 1-6 (1959, Yoshikawa Kobunkan)"

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大田南畝(なんぽ)（蜀山人(しょくさんじん)）の随筆、抄録。自筆原本56巻は6巻散逸したが、諸写本を編成した活字本の補足により、かなり復原されている（巻40は欠）。20代から70代までの幕臣の勤務、文人の生活、旺盛(おうせい)な読書力と広範な知識欲などを反映して、内容は多彩かつ豊富な好読み物なので、生前から借覧希望が多く、写本も多数つくられた。南畝随筆のなかでの代表であり、またいわゆる江戸随筆の流行を促した典型的随筆である。

［浜田義一郎］

『『日本随筆大成』別巻1～6（1959・吉川弘文館）』

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