Early Modern Japanese Literature (Volume D)

Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 –1868) • Tokugawa shogunate • Edo • merchant, samurai class • bookstores • literacy • popular reading— haikai and Buddhist devotional texts

Rice

• Christianity • domain lords and their families • prostitution and courtesans • pleasure quarters • Yoshiwara quarter Society

Ukiyo-e, woodbloock prints

Kabuki Theater • stylization, gesture • makeup • urbanization • social classes

Monzaemon: Bunraku, Puppet Theater • popular art form • puppets • joruri chanting • shamisen • voice training

Unorthodox Poetry • haikai • linked verse • haibun (prose essay) • haiga (ink paintings)

Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) • marginal figure • themes in poetry • 1680 retreat • “Banana plant hut” • • journey with Sora

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Ihara Saikaku (1686) “I made love with the man day and night. When he lost his desire, I strengthened him with loach broth, eggs and yams, and we continued. Gradually, as I expected, he ran dry” (p. 605).

Tokugawa Japan

Test Your Knowledge With no wars left to fight, the numerous elite samurais often became _________ .

a. bureaucrats b. artists c. farmers d. warriors

Test Your Knowledge Prior to the introduction of coined money in the early Tokugawa period, what was the standard of commercial exchange?

a. glass beads b. gold c. rice d. paper notes

Test Your Knowledge What is

kabuki

theater?

a. stylized acting with no talking b. performance using puppets c. dance-drama using live actors d. a form of Noh drama

Test Your Knowledge Which of the following works is the diary of a poet’s travels?

a.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

b.

Life of a Sensuous Woman

c. Matsu Bashō d.

Collection of Myriad Leaves

Test Your Knowledge Which of the following statements is true?

a. Writers of the period were not highly regarded.

b. Theater was not considered a literary form.

c. Writers often mixed elements of classical and popular literature.

d. Writers were not allowed to mix elements of classical and popular literature.

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