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Essays from the mid-Edo period. 4 volumes, 4 books. Published in Edo in 1842 (Tenpo 13). Said to be essays by the literary and elegant Yanagisawa Kien, it has been reprinted many times since the Meiji period, but the author's identity remains unclear. The contents are full of interesting anecdotes about the words and deeds of philanthropists and benevolent people that the author heard about in his daily life, as well as his own family history, but the overall tone is moralistic and there is no trace of the refined Kien. The preface states that Kien's 20 volumes of manuscripts were treasured by Kimura Kenkado of Osaka, and that a certain Tokaen excerpted them and compiled them into 4 volumes, but it is believed to be a forgery by Yamazaki Yoshishige, an Edo scholar of general knowledge who was involved with Tokaen and its publishing, who used Kien's fame to create the works.

[Mitsutoshi Nakano]

"Mori Senzou's Edited "Yunpo Zatsushi" (Iwanami Bunko)" ▽ "Mori Senzou Collected Works 11" (1974, Chuokoron-Shinsha)

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江戸中期の随筆。4巻4冊。1842年（天保13）江戸刊。文雅人柳沢淇園(きえん)の随筆とされ、明治以来翻刻も多いが、作者についてはなお疑問が残る。内容は作者が日常聞き及んだ志士仁人の言行逸話、自家の経歴などを記して興趣に富むが、全体に道徳臭が強く、粋人淇園のおもかげはみいだせない。序文に、淇園の20巻に及ぶ原稿を大坂の木村蒹葭堂(けんかどう)が珍蔵し、桃花園某がそれを抜粋、4巻にまとめて成ったことを記してあるが、桃花園および出版に関係した江戸の雑学者山崎美成(よししげ)が、淇園の名声に付会した偽作であろうとされる。

［中野三敏］

『森銑三校訂『雲萍雑志』（岩波文庫）』▽『『森銑三著作集11』（1974・中央公論社）』

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