Jippensha Ikku

Jippensha Ikku

Jippensha Ikku ( Japanese 十 返 舎 一九 , real name: Shigeta Sadakazu ( 重 田 貞 一 ); * 1765 ; † September 12, 1831 ) was a Japanese writer.

Life

Ikku was the son of a samurai in Sumpu - han in Suruga Province . He himself was in the service of a daimyo for some time and lived in Osaka before he started his own business as a sharebon (humorous literature) and kibyōshi (entertainment literature) author. 1802 appeared under the title Ukiyo dōchū hizakurige ( 浮世 道 中 膝 栗 毛 , "On Shank's pony on the way in the flowing world") the first part of a humorous novel series entitled Tōkaidō chū hizakurige ( 東海 道 中 膝 栗 毛 , “On shoemaker's pony over the East Sea race ") got known. It describes the experiences of two petty bourgeoisie from Edo , Yajirobei and Kitahachi, who get from one comic adventure to the next on their journey on the Tōkaidō . Due to the success, Jippensha continued the story, which he also illustrated himself, until it finally consisted of 43 volumes in 20 episodes in 1822. Further travel stories from Ikku followed from 1830 onwards, such as B. Zokuzoku hizakurige ( 続 々 膝 栗 毛 ), Ehon hizakurige ( 絵 本 膝 栗 毛 ) and Kokkei hizakurige ( 滑稽 臍 栗 毛 ). Imitations of the Tōkaidō chū hizakurige appeared already during its creation and also afterwards. B. Kanagaki Robuns Seiyō dōchū hizakurige ( 西洋 道 中 膝 栗 毛 "On shoemaker's pony through the western world", 1870).

Among the more than 600 works from Ikku's brush are the Yoshiwara seirō nenjū gyōji ( 吉 原 青楼 年 中 行事 , "Almanac of the Green Houses") published in 1804 with illustrations by Kitagawa Utamaro and the Mochigashi sokuseki teseishū ( 餅 製菓子 即席 手 手 手集 , “Collection of quick recipes for rice cakes and sweets”), a humorous cookbook, the recipes of which were rather unsuitable as instructions for cooking.

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• Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-14415-5 , pp. 360 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Bruno Lewin (Ed.): Small Lexicon of Japanology. On the cultural history of Japan . 3. Edition. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03668-0 , p. 221 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Eric C. Rath: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan . University of California Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-520-26227-0 , pp. 14–15 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Lawrence E. Marceau: Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan . In: William M. Tsutsui (Ed.): A Companion to Japanese History . Blackwell Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4051-9339-9 , pp. 130–131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Robin D. Gill: Mad in Translation. A thousand years of kyôka, comic japanese poetry in classic waka mode . Paraverse Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9742618-7-4 , pp. 681–682 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 十 返 舎 一九 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 2, 2011 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Jippensha is the family name, Ikku the first name.