Tamenaga Shunsui

Tamenaga Shunsui ( Japanese 為 永 春水 , real name: Sasaki Sadataka ( 佐 々 木 貞 高 ), Echizenʻya Chōjirō ; * 1790 ; † February 11, 1844 ) was a Japanese writer.

Tamenaga was the first author of Ninjōbon ( 人情 本 ), bourgeois love stories that are considered the forerunners of the modern Japanese novel. After the early work Akegarasu nochi no masayume (1821-24), which he had written together with his brother Ryūtei Rijō , Tamenaga published a series of novels whose title prefix shunshoku (colors of spring) alluded to the genre, including Shunshoku Umegoyomi (1832 -33), Shunshoku Tatsumi no sono (1833-35), Shunshoku Megumi no hana (1838) and Shunshoku Ume mibune (1841). In 1842 the Ninjōbon were temporarily banned at the instigation of the Spartan-minded government of Rōjū Mizuno Tadakuni , Tamenaga was summoned to interrogation along with other authors and sentenced. However, this did not detract from the genre's continued flowering.

literature

• Andrew Lawrence Markus: The willow in autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko, 1783-1842. Harvard University Asia Center, 1992, ISBN 0-674-95351-7 , p. 184.
• Haruo Shirane: Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-14415-5 , pp. 388 f.
• Bruno Lewin : Small encyclopedia of Japanology: on the cultural history of Japan. 3. Edition. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-447-03668-0 , pp. 317-318.
• Gilbert Phelps: A short guide to the world novel: from myth to modernism. Routledge, 1988, ISBN 0-415-00765-8 , p. 158.

Web links

• Author's page at ngiyaw-ebooks.org (with access to an e-text of the novel Treue über alles based on the German edition of 1905)

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