Ejima Kiseki
Ejima Kiseki ( Japanese 江 島 其 磧 ; * 1666 or 1667 in Kyōto ; † July 20, 1735 or 1736) was a Japanese writer. His real name was Murase Gonnojō ( 村 瀬 権 之 丞 ). After the death of his father in 1694, he then took the nickname Shōzaemon ( 庄 左衛 門 ), which his grandfather and father already carried.
Ejima grew up as the son of a trader in Kyoto and after his death in 1694 he started the family business. He began his career as a text writer for the puppeteer Matsumoto Judayu . Here Andō Jishō became aware of him, who took him under contract for his Hachimonjiya publishing house. In the popular Kyōtoer Verlag he published, beginning with Yakusha kuchijamisen (1699), a series of portraits of actors ( yakusha hyōbanki ), which with the illustrations of Nishikawa Sukenobu had extraordinary success.
After these works were unsigned or appeared under the name Andōs , Ejima founded his own publishing house Ejimaya Ichirōzaemon in 1710 and separated from Andō in 1712. In this publishing house he published works such as Akindo gunbai uchiwa ( 商人 軍 配 団 ; "The merchant's command fan ", 1712) and Yakei tabi tsuzura ( 野 傾 旅 葛 籠 ; "The courtesan's travel basket", 1712). From 1718 he worked again with Andō, and in 1723 he dissolved his own publishing house.
With the work Seken musuko katagi ( 世間 子息 気 質 , "Character Pictures of Young Men of Our Time"), published in 1715, Ejima founded the genus katagi-mono , which were collections of satirically exaggerated character pictures , each grouped around a theme. The successful work was followed by character pictures such as Seken musume katagi ( 世間 娘 気 質 , “Character pictures of young women of our time”, 1717), Ukiyo oyaji katagi ( 浮世 親 仁 形 気 ; “Types of fathers of the past”, 1720) and Seken tedai katagi ( 世間 手 代 気 質 ; “Character pictures of shop assistants of our time”, 1730). The genre was later u. a. taken up by Tada Nanrei , Ueda Akinari and Nagai Dōkiyū .
literature
- Nadja Brinker: "The art of selling your daughter: on the commercial design of Seken musume katagi (1717)" in Stephan Köhn, Martina Schönbein: "Facets of Japanese popular and media culture", Volume 2, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, ISBN 9783447055994 , pp. 133-162
- Shūichi Katō, Don Sanderson: "A history of Japanese literature: from the Man'yōshū to modern times" , 2nd edition, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9781873410486 , pp. 181-82
- Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 173-74 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nadja Brinker: "The art of selling your daughter: on the commercial design of the Seken musume katagi (1717)" in Stephan Köhn, Martina Schönbein: "Facets of Japanese popular and media culture", Volume 2, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag , 2005, ISBN 9783447055994 , p. 135
- ↑ a b 江 島 其 磧 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 or デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan or Shogakukan , accessed November 9, 2011 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ejima, Kiseki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 江 島 其 磧 (Japanese, pseudonym); Murase Gonnojō (real name); 村 瀬 権 之 丞 (Japanese, real name); Murase Shōzaemon (nickname); 村 瀬 庄 左衛 門 (Japanese, nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1666 or 1667 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kyoto |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1735 or 1736 |