Shikano Buzaemon

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Shikano Buzaemon ( Japanese 鹿野 武 左衛 門 ; * 1649 in Namba ( Ōsaka ); † September 6, 1699 ) was a Japanese rakugo master.

Along with Tsuyu no Gorebē and Yonezawa Hikohachi, Shikano is one of the earliest masters of the art of storytelling Rakugo. Thirty-nine stories by the narrator ( hanashika ) appeared in 1686 under the title Shika no makifude ( 鹿 の 巻 筆 ). In 1693 a cholera epidemic broke out, killing 11,000 people. With reference to the collection of stories Shika no makifude, the rumor spread that eating umeboshi (pickled plums) reduced the risk of illness, which led to an explosion in umeboshi prices. Shikano was banned from sharing responsibility, but died before it could be implemented. With him the rakugo in the capital Edo went down first until it was revived by Utei Emba about 100 years later .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 延 広 真 治 : 鹿野 武 左衛 門 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed January 25, 2012 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Shūichi Katō: A History of Japanese Literature: From The Man'yōshū to Modern Times . revised edition. Routledge, 1997, ISBN 1-873410-48-4 , pp. 162 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Robert Atkins: A brief and idiosyncratic history of censorship. In: The File Room. Rachel Weiss, 1994, accessed January 25, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Angelika Koch: Between the front and the back. Nanshoku in humorous stories from the Edo period . Vienna 2008, p. 45 ( PDF - diploma thesis at the University of Vienna ).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Shikano is the family name, Buzaemon the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shikano, Buzaemon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鹿野 武 左衛 門 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese narrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Namba ( Osaka )
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1699