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A sharebon (joke book). A small volume. Published in Edo around 1770 (Meiwa 7). The true identity of the author, a country old man named Tada-jii (old man), may be Tamba-ya Rihei mentioned in Shinno Meidan (written by Heiji Tosaku). Tamba-ya was a book store in Osaka, but after 1761 (Horeki 11) it was active in Edo as Bunrin-do. The story is about a man who pretends to be an expert and takes his naive son to Yoshiwara to prove his expertise, but ends up exposing his half-expert status and being hated, which makes the son more popular. This established the standard sharebon format of a short pleasure village novel based on realism and humor. In the humorous book "Kesaku Hyoban Hana no Orikami" (1802), he was referred to as "the founder of Kogaki Ishiya Utsuke."

[Mitsutoshi Nakano]

``Yushi dialect commentary'' by Yukihiko Nakamura (included in ``Appreciating Japanese Classical Literature 34: Pun, Yellow Cover, Comic Book'', 1978, Kadokawa Shoten)''

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

洒落本(しゃれぼん)。小本(こほん)1冊。1770年（明和7）ごろ江戸刊。作者田舎(いなか)老人多田爺(ただのじじい)の正体は『莘野茗談(しんやめいだん)』（平秩東作(へつつとうさく)著）にいう丹波(たんば)屋利兵衛か。丹波屋は大坂の本屋だったが、1761年（宝暦11）以後江戸で文林堂として活躍した。内容は通人ぶった男がその通を示してやろうと、うぶな息子を連れて吉原に遊んだのはいいが、結局半可通を暴露して嫌われ、かえって息子がもてるというもの。写実と滑稽(こっけい)を基とする短編遊里小説という洒落本の定型を確立。洒落本評判記『戯作評判花折紙(けさくひょうばんはなのおりかみ)』（1802）に「小書(こがき)いしやうつけの開山」と称された。

［中野三敏］

『中村幸彦著『遊子方言評釈』（『鑑賞日本古典文学34　洒落本・黄表紙・滑稽本』所収・1978・角川書店）』

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