Ryūtei Tanehiko

Ryūtei Tanehiko

Ryūtei Tanehiko ( Japanese 柳 亭 種 彦 ; born June 11, 1783 in Edo ; † August 24, 1842 ) was a Japanese writer.

Although he was a successful writer during his lifetime, little is known about Tanehiko's circumstances. He did not write any autobiographical writings, and anecdotal biographical sketches about him have only come down to us from his pupil Takahashi Hiromichi and his friend Ogino Baiu (1781-1843).

As the son of a low-ranking samurai family, Tanehiko grew up in relatively modest circumstances. He began his literary career as an author of Kyōka poems based on the model Ōta Nampos . His teacher was Karagoromo Kisshū , after his death in 1802 Shikatsube Magao . Around 1805 he met Ishikawa Masamochi , who is also to be counted among his mentors.

In 1807 Tanehiko published the first of a series of Gesaku novels on which his literary success with his contemporaries was based. His literary reputation after his death is based on the novel Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (1828), in which he took up motifs from Genji Monogatari .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 柳 亭 種 彦 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed February 6, 2012 (Japanese). 

literature

Andrew Lawrence Markus: The willow in autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842 . Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1992, ISBN 978-0-674-95351-2 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Works by Ryūtei Tanehiko in the Gutenberg-DE project
  • Six wall screens in the shapes of the ephemeral world in the Gutenberg-DE project

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