Santō Kyōden

Santō Kyōden ( Japanese 山東京伝 ; actually: 岩瀬醒 , Iwase Samuru ; born September 13, 1761 , † October 27, 1816 ) was a Japanese writer and ukiyo-e artist.

Life

Under the name Kitao Masanobu ( 北尾政寅 ), which can be derived from his apprenticeship with the painter Kitao Shigemasa ( 北尾重政 , 1739-1820), he illustrated many of his own literary works. As Kyōya Denzō ( 京屋伝蔵 ) he was a successful businessman.

At the beginning of his career, Santō was mainly active in the literary genres kibyōshi and sharebon . He is one of the representatives of early bourgeois literature, which reached its first climax with Ihara Saikaku . Because his often comic works showed socially critical and parodic traits, he was successful in his time, also in financial terms, but sometimes controversial. In 1791 the government punished him with 50 days of house arrest. He then turned to the less controversial novel- like yomihon and historical works.

The story Fukushū kidan Asaka-numa (“Strange Tale of Vengeance on Asaka Pond”), a yomihon from 1803, is about Kohada Koheiji, who is murdered by his wife and her lover and who returns as a ghost after his death to scare off his murderers in a bed surrounded by a mosquito net . The story of Kohada Koheiji was picked up by the Kabuki theater from 1808 and became popular as a result. Hokusai made a ukiyo-e representation of Kohada as a ghost for his series Hyaku monogatari ( 百物語 ).

Works (selection)

Edo umare uwaki no kabayaki ( 江戸生艶気蒲焼 , roasted eel - from the gallant hustle and bustle of someone born in Edo ), kibyōshi , 1785

Tsūgen Sōmagaki ( 通言総籬 ), sharebon , 1787

Fukushū kidan Asaka-numa ( 復讐奇談安積沼 ), yomihon , 1803

Udonge monogatari ( 優曇華物語 ), yomihon , 1804

Sakurahime zenden akebonozōshi ( 桜姫全伝曙草子 ), yomihon , 1805

German The Wife of Yoshiharu , Klemm / Seemann 1957, and The story of the beautiful Sakurahime , Insel 1993.

Web links

Commons : Santō Kyōden - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Santō Kyōden in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . Princeton 1985, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691008257 , p. 100.
^ Jürgen Berndt: Santō Kyōden . In: Gerhard Steiner, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Wolfgang Lehmann (ed.): Lexicon of foreign language writers . tape 3 . Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, Leipzig 1977, p. 227 .
↑ James L. McClain (Eds.), John Merriman (Eds.) And Ugawa Kaoru (Eds.): Edo & Paris. Urban Life & the State in the Early Modern Era . Cornell University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0801481833 , p. 344.
^ The Floating World of Ukiyo-e , accessed February 7, 2009.

personal data
SURNAME	Santō, Kyōden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	山東京伝 (Japanese); 岩瀬醒 (Japanese); Iwase Samuru; Kitao Masanobu; 北尾政寅 (Japanese); Kyōya Denzō; 京屋伝蔵 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese writer and ukiyo-e artist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edo
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 1816

[classical-1] Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . Princeton 1985, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691008257 , p. 100.

[lfs-2] Jürgen Berndt: Santō Kyōden . In: Gerhard Steiner, Herbert Greiner-Mai , Wolfgang Lehmann (ed.): Lexicon of foreign language writers . tape 3 . Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, Leipzig 1977, p. 227 .

[3] James L. McClain (Eds.), John Merriman (Eds.) And Ugawa Kaoru (Eds.): Edo & Paris. Urban Life & the State in the Early Modern Era . Cornell University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 978-0801481833 , p. 344.

[4] The Floating World of Ukiyo-e , accessed February 7, 2009.