Shikitei Samba

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Shikitei Samba, print from 1939

Shikitei Samba ( Japanese 式 亭 三 馬 ; * 1776 in Edo (now Tokyo ), † February 27, 1822 ) was a Japanese Gesaku writer.

Names

His real name was Kikuchi Taisuke ( 菊 地 泰 輔 ). His adult name ( azana ) was Hisanori ( 久 徳 ). He was also known as Nishimiya Tasuke ( 西宮 太 助 ) and used a variety of other pseudonyms for his Gesaku works, such as Yūgidō ( 遊戯 堂 ), Shiki Sanjin ( 四季 山人 ), Honchōan ( 本 町 庵 ), Sharakusai ( 洒落 斎 ), Kokkeidō ( 滑稽 堂 ), Gesakusha ( 戯 作 舎 ) and others.

Life

Shikitei's ancestors were Shintō priests on Hachijō-jima for generations , but his father was the woodcutter Kikuchi Mohē ( 菊 地 茂 兵衛 ) in Tawaramachi, Asakusa , Edo (today: Kaminarimon, Taitō ). He started working in a bookstore at the age of nine and did so until he was seventeen. He then brought out his first works in 1794, the Kibyōshi Tendō ukiyo suiseisō ( 天道 浮世 出 星 操 ) and Ningen isshin shitaisō ( 人間 一心 覗 替 繰 ).

Shikitei wrote works in various Gesaku genres, but was best known as a Kibyōshi and Kokkeibon author. As a Kibyōshi author, he especially cultivated the illustrated Gōkan , which was often an adaptation of Kabuki or Jōruri theater pieces. Around the turn of the century, the three theater books Yakusha gakuyatsū (1799), Yakusha sangaikyō (1801) and Shibai kinmōzui (1803) were written, all illustrated by Utagawa Toyokuni .

He became famous primarily through two humorous Kokkeibon works: the four-part Ukiyoburo ( 浮世 風 呂 , "the bathhouse of the flowing world"), which was written between 1809 and 1813, and Ukiyodoko ( 浮世 床 , "the barber's flowing world"), which im Connection emerged.

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  • Barbara Cross: Representing Performance in Japanese Fiction: Sikitei Sanba (1776–1822) . In: SOAS Literary Review AHRB Center Special Issue . 2004 ( PDF ).
  1. ↑ a b 園田 豊 : 式 亭 三 馬 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed January 28, 2012 (Japanese).
  2. ^ Katherine Saltzman-Li: Creating Kabuki Plays: Context for Kezairoku “Valuable Notes on Playwriting” . Brill, 2010, ISBN 978-90-04-12115-7 , pp. 124–125 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Cross, p. 4
  4. ↑ Constantine Nomikos Vaporis: Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life During the Age of the Shoguns . ABC-CLIO, 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-39200-9 , pp. 49–52 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Shikitei is the family name, Samba the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shikitei, samba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shikitei Samba (pseudonym); 式 亭 三 馬 (Japanese, pseudonym); Kikuchi Taisuke (real name); 菊 地 泰 輔 (Japanese, real name); Kikuchi Hisanori; 菊 地 久 徳 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Edo (now Tokyo )
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1822