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Japanese: 繁昌記 - はんじょうき

A genre of Chinese comic stories that was popular from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji era. Influenced by erotic histories such as Huabo-roku and Hankyo-zakki, which depict the customs of Chinese pleasure quarters, and chikushi, which could be considered a collection of Chinese poetry such as Ichikawa Kansai's Hokuri-ka (1786), this comic story was written in Chinese and sketched various aspects of cities. Nakajima Soin's Oto Shiji Zatsukoto (120 chapters, 1826), which was generally welcomed as a guidebook to Kyoto's famous places, is considered to be the pioneering work, but it was Edo Hanjo-ki (1832-36) by Edo ronin Confucian scholar Terakado Seiken that established the genre known as "hanjo-kimono."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

幕末から明治初年にかけて流行した漢文戯作の一ジャンル。中国の遊里風俗を描いた《画舫録》《板橋（はんきよう）雑記》などの艶史類，および市河寛斎の《北里歌（ほくりか）》(1786)などの漢詩による風俗誌ともいうべき竹枝（ちくし）類の影響のもとに，都市のさまざまな局面をスケッチした漢文体の戯作で，ふつう，京都の名所案内記として歓迎された中島棕隠（そういん）の《鴨東（おうとう）四時雑詞》120首本(1826)が先駆的な作品と考えられているが，〈繁昌記物〉と呼ばれるジャンルを確立したのは，江戸の浪人儒者寺門静軒（てらかどせいけん）の《江戸繁昌記》(1832‐36)である。

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