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Yomihon (読本, yomi-hon, "reading books") is a type of ****anese book from the Edo
period (1603–1867).
Unlike other ****anese
books of the periods, such as...
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acquired time to
write more regularly. In 1796, he
published his
first yomihon Takao senjimon (高尾船字文) and his
works spread to
Kyoto and Osaka, earning...
- (報仇奇談自来也説話, The Tale of the
Gallant Jiraiya). The tale was
originally a
Yomihon that was
published in 1806–1807, and was
adapted into a
serialized novel...
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prominent literary figure in 18th-century ****an. He was an
early writer in the
yomihon genre and his two masterpieces,
Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the...
- twenty-eight
years to
complete (1814–1842), in
addition to
other yomihon. Santō Kyōden
wrote yomihon mostly set in the red-light
districts until the
Kansei edicts...
- (Yorimitsu,
Watanabe no Tsuna,
Urabe no Suetake, and
Fujiwara no Yasumasa.),
Yomihon book by
Utagawa Toyokuni and
Takizawa Bakin. An ukiyo-e by Yo****oshi depicting...
- (1603–1867) and
kaidan literature, and is
considered a
predecessor of the
yomihon genre.
Kenji Mizoguchi's award-winning film
Ugetsu (1953),
credited with...
- Kuniyoshi's
print was
commissioned in the Edo
period by Santō Kyōden for a
yomihon,
depicting a
scene in
which Taira no Masakado's daughter, Takiyasha-hime...
- 里見八犬伝) or
simply Hakkenden (****anese: 八犬伝), is a ****anese epic
novel (
yomihon) by
Kyokutei Bakin,
originally published over the
course of twenty-eight...
- his
punishment in 1791, Kyōden
shifted his
writings to the more
didactic Yomihon.
During the 1790s, Santō Kyōden
became a
household name and one of his...
