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Japanese: 大岡政談物 - おおおかせいだんもの

This refers to a group of kabuki, kodan, ninjyobanashi, naniwabushi, and other works in which Ooka Echizen-no-kami, the magistrate of the southern Edo region, appears. Ooka Tadasuke served as magistrate during the Kyoho era (1716-36) and was well known as a famous magistrate. From the end of the Edo period through to the Meiji era, kodan and ninjyobanashi were created from the book Ooka's Injunjiroku and other reading material, and even stories that had nothing to do with Ooka Echizen-no-kami (for example, the Tenichibo Incident was deliberated not by Ooka Echizen-no-kami but by Ina Hanzaemon) were all portrayed as trials of Ooka Echizen-no-kami, forming a huge body of work.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歌舞伎，講談，人情噺，浪花節などで江戸南町奉行大岡越前守が登場する作品群をいう。大岡忠相は，享保年間(1716‐36)に町奉行をつとめ，名奉行の聞こえ高かった人物。幕末から明治にかけて実録本《大岡仁政録》その他の読物から，講談，人情噺が創作され，大岡越前守にはまるで関係のない物語(たとえば天一坊事件は大岡越前守ではなく，伊奈半左衛門が審議をした)もすべて大岡越前守の裁判として，膨大な作品群を形成するに至った。

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