Hachimonjiya Hachizaemon - Hachimonjiya Hachizaemon

Japanese: 八文字屋八左衛門 - はちもんじやはちざえもん

? - 1745 (Enkyo 2)
A Kyoto bookshop in the mid-Edo period. Mr. Ando. Pen name: Hachimonji Jisho. Hachimonjiya was a Joruri bookshop that opened around 1650 (Keian 3). It was run by successive generations of owners called Hachizaemon, and Jisho was the second of them. He took over the family business at the end of the 1680s and began publishing illustrated kyogen books. He expanded his business to include Actor Hyoban-ki (Actor's Mouth Shamisen) published in 1799 and Ukiyo-zoshi (Ukiyo-zoshi) published in 1701, with Ejima Kiseki as the author. The Hyoban-ki established a format that was followed until the end of the Edo period, and Ukiyo-zoshi had some ups and downs at one time, but from around 1745 it became the leading publisher.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

？‐1745(延享2)
江戸中期の京都の本屋。安藤氏。筆名八文字自笑（じしよう）。八文字屋は1650年(慶安3)前後開業の浄瑠璃本屋で，代々八左衛門を称し，自笑はその2代目。80年代の末に家業を継ぎ，絵入狂言本の刊行をはじめ，江島其磧（きせき）を作者に99年刊《役者口三味線》以後役者評判記を，1701年刊《けいせい色三味線》以後浮世草子をと業務を拡張，評判記は幕末まで踏襲される形式を確立し，浮世草子は一時波乱はあったが20年ころより第一の出版元となる。

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