Manzai Kyokashu - Manzai Kyokashu

A collection of kyoka poems (Senshu). Compiled by Yomono Akara (Shokusanjin). Published in 1783 (Tenmei 3). The title is a reference to New Year's Mikawa Banzai and Senzai Wakashu. The collection is ingeniously based on the divisions and arrangement of the 17 volumes of Senzaishu, and includes over 230 kyoka poems from ancient times to the present. It also features works by a wide variety of people from the literary world, kabuki, entertainment, and pleasure quarters, which piqued public interest and created the momentum for the craze for Edo kyoka. The works of Akara, who was at the center of this group, were characterized by free and light-hearted tunes such as "I do not know in my heart who resents the morning glory, but the lush dew of lapis lazuli," which is in the spirit of Tang dynasty poetry, and "In the evening twilight as I walk through the night trade fair of Yoshiwara, the bell at the entrance to the palace blossoms like cherry blossoms," which glorify Edo life. These works overwhelmed Karakoromo Kisshu's "Kyoka Wakabashu," which was published at the same time, and marked a period of "Tenmei style," which continued with "Tokuwaka Gomanzaishu" and "Kyoka Saizōshū."

[Yoshiichiro Hamada]

"Complete Collection of Japanese Masterpieces 19: Kyobun Kyokashu" (1929, Dosho Kankokai)

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狂歌撰集(せんしゅう)。編者四方赤良(よものあから)（蜀山人(しょくさんじん)）。1783年（天明3）刊。題名は正月の三河万歳と『千載(せんざい)和歌集』にちなむ。『千載集』の17巻の部立(ぶだて)や配列に倣うなど趣向を凝らしつつ、古人から当代に至る230余人の狂歌を集めて、集大成の形を整える一方、文芸界、歌舞伎(かぶき)、芸能、遊里など多彩な人々の作も取り上げて、世人の関心を盛り上げ、江戸狂歌の熱狂的流行の気運をつくった。その中心の赤良の作は、唐詩の心で詠む「知らず心たれかは怨(うら)む朝顔はただ瑠璃紺(るりこん)のうるほへる露」、江戸生活を謳歌(おうか)する「吉原の夜見世をはるの夕ぐれは入相(いりあひ)の鐘に花やさくらん」など自由軽快な調べが特色で、同時に出版された唐衣橘洲(からころもきっしゅう)の『狂歌若葉集』を圧倒し、『徳和歌後万載集』『狂歌才蔵集』と続く「天明(てんめい)ぶり」の一時期を画した。

［浜田義一郎］

『『日本名著全集19　狂文狂歌集』（1929・同書刊行会）』

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