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Bloody Hell!: Reading Boys' Books in Seventeenth-Century Japan |
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Author |
Kimbrough, Keller R. (著)
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Source |
Asian Ethnology
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Volume | v.74 n.1 |
Date | 2015 |
Pages | 141 - 165 |
Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
Publisher Url |
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | Japanese children's literature; media violence; monsters; Yoshitsune-Benkei; Oguri; sekkyõ; ko-jõruri; yõkai; kodorno no ehon; irui-mono |
Abstract | Both in and outside of Japan, the early history of Japanese woodblock-printed children's literature continues to be insufficiently understood. Even the topic is controversial insofar as some contemporary scholars have denied the existence of a Japanese children's literature prior to the nineteenth-century importation of Western notions of the child. By examining a young boy's collection of picture books that were sealed inside a statue of the bodhisattva Jizō from 1678 to around 1980, the present article seeks to illuminate the contents and principal themes of "boys' books"—an incipient form of Japanese children's literature apparently written for and consumed by children—published in the Kyoto-Osaka region in the 1660s and 1670s. In particular, the article takes up the issue of extravagant representational violence in a subset of four illustrated warrior tales with obvious links to the contemporaneous sekkyō and ko-jōruri puppet theaters, exploring the salient features of those works in their historical and literary contexts. |
Table of contents | Chokuro's books 114 Compendium books 116 Sekkyõ and ko-jõruri books 121 CHÖKURÖ'S WARRIOR TALES 125 Conclusion 133 Notes 135 References 137 |
ISSN | 18826865 (P) |
Hits | 156 |
Created date | 2021.11.01 |
Modified date | 2021.11.05 |
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