Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600–1900
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koshi (old style)
kōshoku (sensuality; sexual pleasures)
Kōshoku gonin onna. See Five Sensuous Women
Kōshoku ichidai onna. See Life of a Sensuous Woman
Kōshoku ichidai otoko. See Life of a Sensuous Man
kōshokubon (books on love or sexual pleasures)
kōshoku-mono (books on love). See kōshokubon
kosode (kimono)
koto (kind of zither)
kotoba (words)
kotowaza (well-known aphorisms)
kouta (popular songs)
kubi jikken (head viewing)
kujira (whales)
Kūkai
kukai (hokku meetings where topic is fixed in advance)
kumo no mine (cloud peak)
Kunidayū chanting style
kura (storehouse)
kurai (status)
kuramoto (warehouse people)
kurayashiki (warehouses)
kuretake bamboo
kurohon (black booklets)
Kuroyanagi Shōha (Shundei)
kuruwa (boundary; castle wall). See also yukaku
kusa no to (grass hut)
kusamura (grass)
kusa-zōshi (picture books)
Kusunoki clan
Kusunoki Masashige
Kusunoki Masatsura
Kuwagata Keisai (Kitao Masayoshi)
kūya (lay monks or pilgrims)
kyōbun (crazy prose; comic prose)
kyōgen (medieval comic drama)
kyōgen kigo (wild words and specious phrases)
Kyōhō era
Kyōhō-Hōreki era
Kyōhō Reforms: ban on dramatization of double suicides by; ban on erotic literature by; and censorship; conservative morals of; and fiscal sources; moralistic books in; and Tokugawa Yoshimune
kyōka (comic waka); in comic fiction; and kyōbun; of late eighteenth century; Naniwa (Osaka); as popular genre; and senryū; Tenmei style of; writers of
kyoku (mad verse)
Kyokutei Bakin (Takizawa Bakin); and gōkan; Ming influence on; as student of Santo Kyōden; yomihon by
Kyorai
Kyorai’s Gleanings (Kyoraishō)
kyōsha (mad person)
kyōshi (comic Chinese poetry)
Kyoto: culture of; Festival of the Dead in; growth of; Kimon school in; Kogidō Academy in; Miyako Theater in; pleasure quarters in; publishing in
Lady Aoi (nō play)
Lady Jōruri (Jōruri hime)
“Lamentation at an Ancient Battlefield” (Gu zhanchang diaowen; J. Ko senjō o tomurau bun; Li Hua)
landscape style. See also utamakura
language: ancient; Chinese; classical; classical and vernacular; elegant; Japanese; local; ordinary; in poetry; study of; vernacular. See also literature: vernacular
Laozi
Later Collection of Master Nankai (Nankai sensei goshū; Gion Nankai)
Lessons and Good Manners for Women (Onna kyōkun shitsukekata)
Lessons from History (Tokushi yoron; Arai Hakuseki)
li (J. rei; ritual decorum; propriety)
li (J. ri; principle; reason)
Li Bo
Li Panlong
Li Zhi (Ri Shi)
Life of a Sensuous Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko; Ihara Saikaku)
Life of a Sensuous Woman (Kōshoku ichidai onna; Ihara Saikaku)
Lin Xiyi
linked verse; reverberation link in; status link in; three types of links in. See also haikai; renga
literacy
literati. See bunjin
literature: Chinese vernacular; classical; classical Chinese (see Confucianism: classics of); classical Japanese; comic; commercialization of; Confucian views of; early modern; of eighteenth century; elite; elite versus popular; in Heian period; of love; popular; traditional; travel; urban; urban commoner; vernacular; vernacular haikai. See also drama; fiction; poetry; specific genres
Liu Zongyuan
love; and Buddhist monks; homosexual; individual; literature of; poetry of; scenes of; stories of; and suicide. See also gōkan; ninjōbon; yomihon
Love Suicides at Amijima, The (Shinjū ten no Amijima; Chikamatsu Monzaemon)
Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The (Sonezaki shinjū; Chikamatsu Monzaemon)
loyalty. See also giri
machi shishō (town teacher)
machishū (Kyoto’s wealthy new townspeople)
madara ni (in spots and patches)
Maeda family
maeku (previous verse)
maekuzuke (verse capping)
magokoro (true heart)
Makabe Heishirō
makoto (poetic truth; sincerity)
makurakotoba (pillow words; poetic epithets)
mana (Chinese) preface to Kokinshū
Manji-Kanbun era
manku awase (ten-thousand-verse contests)
Many Verses (Ōku kazu; Ihara Saikaku)
Man’yōshū (Anthology of Ten Thousand Leaves): attempt to return to; commentaries on; imitation of; influence of; kinds of poetry in; and kokugaku scholars; and moral function of poetry; studies of
manzai (New Year dancers)
mappō (Buddhist Law or Dharma)
Maruyama (licensed pleasure quarter in Nagasaki)
Masaoka Shiki
Masatayū
Master Groggy (Neboke Sensei; Ōta Nanpō)
Master Groggy’s Literary Collection (Neboke sensei bunshū; Ōta Nanpō)
Master Sorai’s Teachings (Sorai sensei tōmonsho; Ogyū Sorai)
Master Yang’s Sayings (J. Yōshi hōgen; Yang Xiong)
Masumi Katō
Masumi Katō V
Masumi Tōjū
masuraoburi (masculine style)
Matsudaira Nobunari
Matsudaira Sadanobu; and Kansei Reforms; as senior councillor
Matsudaira Yoritaka
Matsue Shigeyori
Matsukaze (nō play)
Matsumoto Kōshirō IV
Matsumoto Kōshirō V
Matsumushi (nō play)
Matsunaga Teitoku; disciples of
Matsuo Bashō; and art of haikai; audience of; calligraphy by; central technique of; circle of (Shōmon); death of; as descendant of warriors; disciples of; and Genroku era; hokku by; hundredth anniversary of death of; and nō drama; painting of; provincial origins of; revival of; school of; and single-object poems; style of (Shōfū); travels of; and Yosa Buson
mazui (tasteless; inept)
Meaning of Words in the Analects and the Mencius, The (Gomo jigi; Itō Jinsai)
Meiji period: and Chinese Ming period; fiction in; newspaper novels in; poetry in; and Tokugawa period; use of term rakugo in; yomihon in
Meiji Restoration
meishoki (travel guides)
meitoku (luminous virtue)
Meiwa era
Mencius
Mencius (Mengzi; J. Mōshi)
Meng Dongye
merchants; literacy of; and samurai; of seventeenth century; and shōgunate; Way of; as writers. See also Japan’s Eternal Storehouse
mi (clam’s body)
michi (the Way)
michiyuki (travel scenes; lovers’ suicide scenes)
migawari (personal substitution)
Mikawa Narrative (Mikawa monogatari)
mikazuki (third-day moon)
military stories
Minamoto clan
Minamoto Tametomo
Minamoto Tōru
Minamoto Yorimasa
Minamoto Yoritomo
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Ming period (China); and Chinese classics; novels of; poetry of. See also Ancient Rhetoric school
Mishima Yukio
Misujimachi. See Kyoto: pleasure quarters in
mitate (metaphors; comparisons)
Mitsui family business
Mitsui Hachirōemon
Miwa (nō play)
miyaburi (courtly style)
Miyai Den’emon
miyako (the capital)
Miyakodayu Itchō
Miyoshi Shōraku
Mizoguchi Kenji
Mizoguchi Naonori
Mizuki Takejūrō
Mizuno Tadakuni
Mo Ye
mochiya (rice-cake merchants)
Modern Life of Shidōken, The (Fūryū Shidōken; Hiraga Gennai)
Modern-Style Lousy Sermons (Imayō heta dangi; Jōkanbō Kōa)
Mongrel Tsukuba Collection (Inu Tsukuba shū)
Monkey’s Straw Coat (Sarumino)
mono no awaré (pathos of things): and elegant style; in monogatari; and poetry; in theories of literature. See also Motoori Norinaga; Tale of Genji, The
mono no bi (faintness or depth of things)
mono wa tsukushi (detailing of things)
monogatari (tales; novels): and emotion; format of; and guides to pleasure quarters; intentions of; as nondidactic writing; reading of; studies of; and waka; women writers of
Mononobe no Moriya
Morikawa Kyoriku
Motoori Haruniwa
Motoori Norinaga: contemporaries of; debate of, with Ueda Akinari; disciples of; and imitation of ancients; influences on; as kokugaku scholar; and mono no awaré; nativist criticism of; and Ozawa Roan; theories of
Mountain Well, The (Yama no i; Kitamura Kigin)
“Mourning the Old Sage Hokuju” (Hokuju rosen o itamu; Yosa Buson)
Mr Glitter ’n’ Gold’s Dream of Splendor (Kinkin sensei eiga no yume; Koikawa Harumachi)
muda (useless)
mugen nō (dream play)
Munefusa. See Matsuo Bashō
Murasaki Shikibu. See also Tale of Genji, The
muro (sealed room)
Muro Kyūsō
Muromachi period
musubu (to tie blades; to bond)
My Personal View of Poetry (Isonokami no sasamegoto; Motoori Norinaga)
My Spring (Ora ga haru; Kobayashi Issa)
My Views on the Eight Points of Japanese Poetry (Kokka hachiron yogen; Tayasu Munetake)
myōdai (substitution)
Nagasaki
nagauta (long songs)
Nagayama Shigeyuki
nagusami (controlled release)
Nakae Tōju
Nakamura Fukusuke I
Nakamura Kumetarō (Nakamura Richō)
Nakamura Kusatao
Nakamura Nakazō
Nakamura Shichisaburō II
Nakamura Tomijūrō
Nakamura Yosahachi
Nakamura Yukihiko
Nakano Mitsutoshi
Nakazawa Dōni
nakibon (books to cry by). See also sewa-yomihon
naku (to cry out; to weep)
Namiki Sōsuke (Namiki Senryū); conflict in plays of; death of; as kabuki-jōruri playwright
nanga (southern school) style of literati painting. See also bunjinga
naniwa-bushi (storytelling to musical accompaniment)
Naniwa miyage. See Souvenirs of Naniwa
Nankaku sensei tōka no sho. See Jottings of Master Nankaku Under the Lamp-light
nanshoku (homosexual love)
Nanshoku ōkagami. See Great Mirror of Male Love
Nansō Satomi hakkenden. See Eight Dog Chronicles, The
Naosuke (Gonbei)
Nara period
Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no hosomichi; Matsuo Bashō)
nativist studies. See kokugaku
natsu no tsuki (summer moon)
natsugusa (summer grasses; seasonal word)
natsuyama (summer mountains; seasonal word)
Neboke Sensei (Master Groggy; Ōta Nanpō)
nebu (nemu; silk tree)
neko no tsumagoi (cat’s love for its mate)
Nenashigusa. See Rootless Weeds
nenja (adult man)
New Beauties Contest Self-Penned Mirror (Shinbijin awase jihitsu kagami; Santō Kyōden)
New Flower Gathering (Shinhanatsumi; Yosa Buson)
New Learning (Niimanabi; Kamo no Mabuchi)
New Mongrel Tsukuba Collection (Shinzō inu Tsukuba shū; Matsunaga Teitoku)
New Tales for Lamplight (Jiandeng xinhua; J. Sentō shinwa;Qu You)
Night Drum (Yoru no tsuzumi; film)
Nihon gaishi. See Unofficial History of Japan, The
Nihon shoki. See Chronicle of Japan
Niimanabi iken. See Objections to New Learning
Nijō school
ninjō (human emotions): as basis of kabuki and Jōruri; in Chinese poetry; conflict of, with giri; in Confucianism; and Jinsai school; of monks; in poetry; and sentimental fiction; in The Tale of Genji
ninjōbanashi (love stories)
ninjōbon (sentimental fiction); compared with sharebon; of eighteenth century; and human emotion; and kabuki; of nineteenth century; and women; writers of; and yomihon
Nippon eitaigura. See Japan’s Eternal Storehouse
Nise monogatari. See Fake Tales
nise murasaki (imitation lavender)
Nise Murasaki inaka Genji. See Country Genji by a Commoner Murasaki, A
Nishikawa Sukenobu
nishikie (brocade) prints
Nishiyama Sō in
Nitta Tadatsune
Nitta Yoshisada
nō drama: audience for; dances from; and domain lords; ghosts in; influence of; and jōruri; Matsuo Bashō’s treatment of; and poetry; warrior. See also specific plays
Nōin
Nonoguchi Ryūhō
norito (Shintō prayers)
notto (pops up)
novels: Chinese vernacular; of manners; in Ming period; newspaper. See also fiction; gōkan; monogatari; ninjōbon; ukiyo-zōshi; yomihon
Nue (nō play)
nukushi (warm)
nuregoto (love scene)
nyodō (way of loving women)
O-An
O-An’s Stories (Oan monogatari)
Objections to New Learning (Niimanabi iken; Kagawa Kageki)
Observations on Foreign Languages and Customs (Sairan igen; Arai Hakuseki)
ochi (unexpected twist)
Oda Nobunaga
odori (popular dance)
Ogata Tsutomu
Ogawa Kichitarō (Ogawa Eishi)
Ogino Yaegiri
Oguri hangan
Ogyū Sorai: Ancient Rhetoric school of; and Ancient Studies movement; and ancient Way; and Confucianism; school of Chinese studies of
Oi no kobumi. See Backpack Notes
oie sōdō (house succession)
oiran (highest-ranking courtesan)
Ōishi Kuranosuke
Okamoto Bunya
Okanishi Ichū
Okina mondō. See Dialogue with the Elder
oku (within)
Oku no hosomichi. See Narrow Road to the Deep North
ōkubi-e (close-up portrait)
Ōkuma Kotomichi
Okuni
Ōkura Hikohachirō
Old and New Stories (Gujin xiaoshuo; J. Kokin shōsetsu)
Old Man Who Made Blossoms Bloom, The (folktale)
omohi (longing)
omomuki (sentiment)
“On Sending Off Kyoriku” (Matsuo Bashō)
One Hundred Poets, One Hundred Poems (Hyakunin isshu; Fujiwara Teika)
Ōnin Wars
Onitsura
onnagata (women’s roles); actors of
onna-girai (woman haters)
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Otsū
Onoe Kikugorō (Onoe Baikō)
Onoe Kikugorō III (Onoe Baikō)
Onoe Kikugorō V
Onoe Kikujirō II
Onoe Matsusuke
Onoe Matsusuke II (Kikugorō III)
onozukara (naturally)
onozukaranaru michi (natural Way)
Ora ga haru. See My Spring
Oriorigusa. See Tales from This Time and That
Oritaku shiba no ki. See Record of Breaking and Burning Brushwood
Osaka; as commercial center; culture of; Dōtonbori entertainment district in; as ec
onomic center; Ikudama Shrine in; pleasure quarters in; Sixteen Bridges of Naniwa in; theater in. See also Takemoto Theater
Ota Nanpō (Yomono Akara; Shoku-sanjin; Neboke Sensei; Master Groggy)
Ōtani Hiroji
Otani Hiroji III
ŌOtogi-bōko. See Hand Puppets
otogi-shū (professional storytellers)
otogi-zōshi (Muromachi tales)
otokodate (chivalrous commoner play)
ōtomo no Yakamochi
otoshibanashi (stories with a twist)
Ouyang Xiu
Ozawa Roan
painting: of Bashō; bird-and-flower; and calligraphy; Chinese; departing from the common in; haikai; Kano school of; landscape; literati; medieval masters of; and picture books; and poetry; Western-style. See also kusa-zōshi
Painting Manual of the Cold-Leaf Studio (Kan’yōsai gafu; Takebe Ayatari)
parodies; as haikai technique; literary. See also Dog Pillow Book, The; Fake Tales
“Peach Blossom Spring” (Tao Qian)
“Peach Boy” (Momotarō)
“Peony Lantern, The” (Botan tōrō; Asai Ryōi)
Peony Lantern Ghost Story (Kaidan botan dōrō; Sanyūtei Encho)
Pillow Book, The (Makura no sōshi; Sei Shōnagon)
Playboy Dialect, The (Yūshi hōgen; Inaka Rōjin Tada no Jijii); and courtesan culture; preface in; and ridicule of half-tsū; and sharebon
plays: adultery; demon; history; kabuki; miraculous; samurai; urban commoner; warrior; woman. See also drama
pleasure quarters; in Edo; guides to; in Kyoto; in Osaka; and samurai; unlicensed. See also tsū; Yoshiwara; yūkaku
Pleasures of the Brush (Fude no susabi; Kan Chazan)
Plum Blossom Scent (Ume ga ka; Matsuo Bashō and Yaba)
poetry: Chinese (see also kanshi; kyōshi); classical; combination; comic and satiric; and common world; direct-word; and elegance; as greetings; of Heian period; intermediaries in; Japanese classical; Japa-nese-Chinese; love; medieval court; and mono no awaré; and morality; “of one’s life,”; overtones of; and painting; and politics; and prose; purpose of; single-object; and song; in Song period; in Tang period; and the Way; women writers of; Yahantei school of. See also linked verse; specific genres
Poetry Collection of Shinobunoya (Shinobunoya kashū; Tachibana Akemi)
“Praise to Portraits of Three Saints” (Sanseizu no san; Matsuo Bashō)
Principles of Chinese Poetry for Beginners (Shogaku shihō)
printing; of calendars; mass; and movable type; woodblock
prose: Chinese; comic; in fiction; neoclassical; and poetry; vernacular. See also literature: vernacular; specific genres
Prose Mirror of Japan (Honchō bunkan; Shikō)
Prose Writings of Master Fujiwara (Fujiwara sensei bunshū)
prostitution. See also courtesans
publishing
puppet theater. See bunraku; jōruri