Tsuga Teishō

Tsuga Teishō ( Japanese 都 賀 庭 鐘 ; * 1718 ; † 1794 ) was a Japanese writer.

Tsuga grew up in Osaka and returned to his hometown after studying medicine in Kyoto, where he worked as a doctor. He emerged as the author of Yomihon (reading books), a genre that can be assigned to entertainment literature. Many of his works are based on templates from Chinese stories, which he adapted to the circumstances in Japan.

The Yomihon Tsugas appeared in three collections during his lifetime: Kokon Kidan Hanabusa zōshi (1749), Kokon Kidan Shigeshige yawa (1766) and Kokon Kidan Hitsuj gusa (1786). Tsuga found successors in authors such as Ueda Akinari , Takebe Ayatar and Okajima Kanzan .

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• Oikawa Akane: "Preliminary thoughts on Tsuga Teishō and his Shimeizen: An Attempt to Travel Outward from Japanese Language" (PDF; 515 kB)
• Dennis Charles Washburn: "Translating Mount Fuji: modern Japanese fiction and the ethics of identity" , Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780231138925 , p. 57

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