Koikawa Harumachi

Koikawa Harumachi ( Japanese 恋 川 春 町 , stage name: Sakanoue Furachi ( 酒 上 不 埒 ); * 1744 ; † August 27, 1789 ) was a Japanese writer, Gesaku literary writer and ukiyo-e artist.

Life

Koikawa was born under the name Kurahashi Itaru ( 倉橋 格 ) as the son of a samurai who was in the service of the feudal lord ( daimyō ) of Tanabe in the province of Kii . At the age of 20 he was adopted by an uncle, whom he succeeded after his death in 1776 as governor of the residence ( 留守 居 , rusui ) in Edo of the feudal lord of Ojima . In 1781 he became chamberlain ( 側 用人 , sobayōnin ) and administrator ( 用人 , yōnin ), and in 1787 an elder ( 年 寄 , toshiyori ) connected with a salary of 120 koku .

He took painting lessons from Toriyama Sekien . Since his drawing style was strongly based on that of the Katsukawa school , it is assumed that he - at least informally - also received lessons from Katsukawa Shunshō , the then head of the school. His first surviving work are the illustrations for the Tōsei fūzoku tsū ( 当 世 風俗 通 , instructions for a contemporary style ) written by Hōseidō Kisanji in 1773 . From 1775 he began to publish self-written Kusazōshi books with his own illustrations. With Kinkin Sensei eiga no yume ( 金 々 先生 栄 花 夢 , Professor Kinkin's dream ) he created the prototype of the Kibyōshi book in 1775 and he is considered a pioneer of this genre with his friend Tegara no Okamochi , whose books he also illustrated. Among the around 100 books in which Koikawa was involved as an author and / or illustrator, there are 30 Kibyōshi. The most distinctive representative of the style was the one generation younger Santō Kyōden .

In addition, Koikawa was also known as a Kyōka author under the pseudonym Sakanoue Furachi . His most successful book was Ōmugaeshi bunbu no futamishi , which appeared in 1789. Since it was viewed as a criticism of the Kansei reform and ridicule of the Rūjō Matsudaira Sadanobu , it fell victim to censorship and led to Koikawa losing all offices. He died before he was tried before the courts of Bakufu .

Works

• 1775 Kinkin Sensei Eiga no Sume ( 金 々 先生 栄 花 夢 )
• 1776 Kōmansai Angya Nikki ( 高 慢 斎 行 脚 日記 )
• 1776 Mudai Ki ( 無益 委 記 )
• 1780 Totoba Tatakai Atarashi no Ne
• 1789 Ōmugaeshi bunbu no futamishi ( 鸚鵡 返 文武 二 道 )

swell

• English Information about Shizuoka City, Japan - Koikawa Harumachi
• Anna Beerens, Josephus Beerens: Friends, acquaintances, pupils and patrons: Japanese intellectual life in the late eighteenth century: a prosopographical approach . Amsterdam University Press, 2006, ISBN 9789087280017 , pp. 94-95.
• Timothy T. Clark, ea: The Actor's Image. Print Makers of the Katsukawa School . Princeton University Press, Chicago, 1994, ISBN 0-86559-097-4 (English).
• Roman A. Cybriwsky: Historical Dictionary of Tokyo , 2nd edition. Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 9780810872387 , pp. 119-20.
• Earl Roy Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature , new edition. Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780691008257 , p. 185.
• Don Sanderson: A history of Japanese literature: from the Man'yooshuu to modern times , 2nd edition. Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9781873410486 , p. 183.
• Haruo Shirane: Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780231144155 , p. 321 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 恋 川 春 町 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 23, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Beerens, p. 94
3. ↑ Clark, p. 19
4. ↑ See “Union Catalog of Early Japanese Books” ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Koikawa is the family name, Harumachi the first name.