Index

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Aarseth, Espen J. 275n47
Aa shinkirō (Oh: A Mirage) 512
actors’ likenesses 30, 92, 303
changing across reissues (gōkan) 467–468
on covers (gōkan) 264, 265, 413, 414
in gōkan 218–219, 362, 368, 390, 391, 391–392, 447, 451, 471n48
in kibyōshi 238, 238n27
and Utagawa School 96
Ada kurabe ikiji no samezaya (Mutually Assured Adultery: Sharkskin Scabbard of Determination) 408
adaptation 27, 31, 389, 516
adaptation studies 363
in akahon 125, 127, 133
in gōkan 34, 35, 95, 214–215, 215n45, 360–398, 405
in kurohon-aohon 151n10
in manga 535, 543, 545, 548
multi-adaptation 34, 362, 363–364, 371, 382, 383, 393, 396, 397, 398
and Santō Kyōden 367, 370, 371, 373, 385, 386, 389, 390, 393, 397 digests; sekai; sekai-shukō dyad; shukō
Ada utare gesaku (Gesaku’s Enemies Avenged) 502
advertisements 87, 364, 366, 385, 387, 447, 474, 489
in back matter 71, 72, 233
of books 60
on inside back covers 65, 74
in running text 71
aesthetic of the inconsequential 26, 31
affect 541, 543, 545
Agemaki-e futatsu inrō (The Picture of Courtesan Agemaki and Two Inrō Cases) 242, 242n42
Ahō wa nete mate (Wait Asleep, You Fool) 302
Aiba Shinbee (copyist) 72, 97
ai-jirushi (matching marks) 71, 98, 101–102, 195, 196, 197n14, 199 . aimon; kakiire; kogaki
aimon (matching marks) 197, 197n14 . ai-jirushi
akahon (red [cover] books) 15, 27, 28, 32, 49, 173n55, 306, 307, 344, 436, 488
adaptation in 125, 127, 133
and adults 121
anthropomorphized character of 340
authors of 96
cartouches in 136, 139–141
and chapbooks 568
and children 121, 121n12, 134, 151
contents 87, 120, 120n8, 121, 122
emergence of 16, 77, 118
English translations (bibliography updated Sept 2023) 590
and jōruri (puppet theater) 121, 121n12, 122, 125, 136, 140
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 29, 30
materiality of 51, 69
mise en page 122–130, 150–151, 151n6, 167
prefaces in 66
readers of 120–122, 134, 151
reading habits 134
reading order of text 134–136
red covers 119, 120
revival 438
sales wrappers 55
sleeve marks 136–140
songs in 121, 127, 141
and synoptic narratives 131–134
use of red covers 119–120 kabuki (theater); kakiire; Urokogataya
Akahon sensei 182, 344–345
Akahon Shōtoku taishi (Prince Shōtoku’s Red Book) 125–126
aka kohon (small red [cover] books) 119
Akatsuki-gasa shigure no Furuteya (Early Morning Umbrella: Furuteya Caught in a Late Fall Shower) 408
Akimoto Shunkichi 568, 570, 570n26, 580
Akudama odori (dance) 468–471
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke 501
alternate attendance (sankin kōtai) 445, 445n2
Ame o kattara tako yarō banashi (Buy My Candy and I’ll Give You a Kite Story) 592
Anadehon tsūjin-gura (A Guide and Copybook of the Treasure of the Dandies) 162
anthropomorphization 151n10, 273, 281, 305–309, 310, 326, 346, 430, 562
of books 152, 160, 173, 232, 340
of idioms 302, 309–320, 335, 431
of money 90, 247, 335
aohon (light-green [cover] books) 15, 348, 438, 472, 571
as anthropomorphized character 173, 340, 472
authors of 18
contents of 30, 120, 151, 151n10, 232
development of 118, 119
dream motif in 235
emergence of 16, 77
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 29
synonym of kibyōshi 15, 18, 21, 107, 121, 152, 152n12, 160, 173, 178n72, 179, 232, 242, 340
synonym of kusazōshi 107, 266, 459
title slip 18
translations of 571
under-researched 27 early kusazōshi; kurohon-aohon
Santō Kyōden; Urokogataya
aohon-kurohon . kurohon-aohon
aragoto 157
Araki, James 235n14, 245n50, 246n55, 571–572, 575, 579
Arashi Sangorō II 238
Are (Are) 129
Aruta 535, 543–548
Asahina 416
Asai Ryōi 361, 366, 368, 370, 383, 386–387, 465n35
Asakusa (place) 207n30, 429, 467, 492
Asakusa no Ichindo 321
Asakusa reigenki (Record of a Miracle in Asakusa) 446n3
Asazuma-bune yanagi no mikazuki (New Moon, Willow, and Asazuma Boat) 459
Ashikaga-ginu tezome no murasaki (An Ashikaga Silk, Hand-Dyed in Purple) 435n34 . Sono yukari hina no omokage
Ashikaga Yorikane 453
Ashikaga Yoshimasa 139, 375, 416, 417, 418, 419
Ashikaga Yoshinori 417
Ashiya Dōman ōuchi kagami (A Courtly Mirror of Ashiya Dōman) 93n19
Atariyashita jihon doiya (It’s a Hit! The ‘Local-book’ Wholesaler) 88, 108–110, 592
Atherton, David 12n44, 334n3, 519
authors (of kusazōshi) (sakusha) 91–92, 111, 154, 156n22
active in other genres 152, 164
collective author (creative team) 12, 23, 89, 97, 111, 113, 516
first recorded author 18
lack of recorded author 96
names recorded in books 55, 61, 74, 154
payment of 12, 110n34
visual depiction of 3, 89, 336, 341, 347
women 12 Hokusai; Jippensha Ikku; Koikawa Harumachi; Kyokutei Bakin; Ryūtei Tanehiko; Santō Kyōden; Shikitei Sanba; Tomikawa Ginsetsu
kabuki actors; kibyōshi
Awase-zuma yuki no Furuteya (Wife in a Lined Kimono: Furuteya in the Snow) 409n9
back matter 74–75, 79, 233 . shinpan mokuroku; zōhan mokuroku
Baetens, Jan 6, 8n32
Bai Juyi 92
Baishi wenji (Collated Works of Bai Juyi) 91–92
Baishi zhangqing ji 92n17
Bakan monmō zue (A Crack-Brained Dream of Illiteracy: An Illustrated Collection) 335, 335n4, 336, 339–340, 349, 351
bakemono 154, 154n19
Bakemono chakutōchō (A Monster Catalogue) 592
Bakemono hitotsuya no higeonna (The Bearded Lady of the Haunted House) 579, 590–591
Bakemono no yomeiri (The Monster Takes a Bride) 579, 593
bandes dessinées 509
Bandō Hikosaburō III 391
Bandō Mitsugorō III 219, 411, 468–471
Bandō Mitsugorō IV 468, 470, 471n48
ban-sugoroku (board game) 271, 279–280, 279n55, 281
banzuke (numbering system) 98 . ai-jirushi
baren (printing tool) 106
Beibeisai 413 . Shinrotei
Benkei jō (Benkei’s Missive) 273, 273n38
Benzaiten 343, 344
Berndt, Jaqueline 1n2, 7n24
Bi-en sen’nyo kō (cosmetic) 72
bijinga (portraits of beauties) 303–305
Bishamonten 343, 344
block-cutter (hangishi, horishi, kiketsushi) 69, 95n22, 102–105, 582
guilds 105
name acknowledged in books 72, 74, 413, 516
part of creative team 12, 89, 103, 111
payment of 12
and printer 103
visual depiction of 89
bokashi (gradation) 107
Bōken Dankichi (The Adventures of Dankichi) 553
Bokusentei Yukimaro 409
Botan-dōrō (The Peony Lantern) (ghost story, lineage, storyworld) 360, 361, 362, 374, 375–378
Botan gara no tōrō (Peony Lanterns) 398n91
bottose (wig) 238
Buchōhō sokuseki ryōri (The Poorly Cooked Instant Dish) 320
Bunbuku chagama (The Bunbuku Tea-Kettle) (akahon) 127n25, 127–129, 131, 139
Bunbuku chagama (The Bunbuku Tea-Kettle) (folklore) 127
Bunbu nidō mangoku dōshi (The ‘Two Paths’ Threshing Machine; or Separating the Scholars from the Warriors) 245n54, 593
Caillois, Roger 286
canon-making 19, 23, 508
Carpenter, John T. 323
cha 26
chaban (farcical play) 159n33, 182, 421, 423, 429–433
chaban kyōgen . chaban
Chaban kyōgen Hatsune machi (Farcical Play: Waiting for Hatsune) 429
Chaban kyōgen ichiya-zuke (Farces Prepared in One Night) 320
chakasu . cha
Chance, Linda H. 464
chapbooks 6, 7, 568–569
chess 279n54
Chigo Monju osana kyōkun (Lessons from Mañjuśrī for Children) 315–320, 326
Chikamatsu Monzaemon 352n36
Chikata Michitomo (copyist) 97
Chikata Nakamichi (copyist) 465, 465n36, 466
children 337, 339, 446, 569
and akahon 121, 121n12, 134, 151
and ezōshiya/ezōshiten 491, 494, 495
and gōkan 207, 488
and kurohon 472, 548
and manga 532, 551, 553
play 26, 263, 263n7, 271–272, 280, 281, 291
relation with parents 272–273, 274, 275, 277–278 readers (of kusazōshi)
children’s literature 7, 121, 532, 553
China 50, 102, 360, 367, 513, 583
Chinsetsu yumiharizuki (The Marvelous Story of the Drawn-Bow Moon) 490, 490n11
Chiteikoku no kaijin (The Mysterious Underground Men) 543
chitsu 53n10
Chōbunsai Eishi 154
chōhen gōkan (long gōkan) 26–27, 53, 78 . gōkan; tanpen gōkan
Chōjū giga (Scrolls of Frolicking Animals) 306, 532
Chǒndǔng sinhwa kuhae (Annotated New Tales Told While Trimming the Lamps) . Sentō shinwa kukai
Chosakudō zakki (Bakin’s Notebook) 465
chūhon (medium-sized book, mid-sized book) 51, 52, 76, 85, 87, 87n1, 119, 122, 474, 507
Chūkō somewake tazuna (Variegated Reins of Loyalty and Filial Piety) 407
Chute, Hillary 8, 9
Chūya yōjinki (Cautionary Tales for All Times of the Day and Night) 428
close-up 4, 543, 545, 550
closing signatures 74
comic book 1, 6, 7, 114
cinematic 541–542
comics narratology 534
comparative endeavors 507, 525
definition of 7, 8n28, 507, 508–510, 531, 533
properties of 512–513, 513–514, 515–516
proto-comic 509 comix
kibyōshi; kusazōshi
comicness 9
comics . comic book
Comics Studies 9, 36, 533, 542, 580
decolonizing 523–524
Euro-American texts 505, 508, 509, 510, 522
and graphic narratives 9
insularity 506
Japan-centered 532
pioneers of 518
sequentiality and 509, 522, 523
and synoptic narratives 131n28
comix (definition of) 510 . kusazōshi
co-mixing 510
copyist (calligrapher) (hikkō, yōsho) 97–98, 101–102, 103, 457, 465
name acknowledged in books 74, 75, 413
part of creative team 12, 89, 111, 516
payment of 12
visual depiction of 89
recutting blocks 104
covers (hyōshi) 50, 51, 57–61, 78–79, 264, 575
color of 15, 17, 49, 118, 119–120, 152, 438
cover-maker 111, 113
decorated back covers 63–65, 64
front covers (gōkan) 57, 58–61, 58, 59, 62, 63, 364–368, 365, 413, 414
front covers (kibyōshi) 62
front covers (kurohon) 63
inside back covers (ura-mikaeshi) 72, 74, 75
inside front covers (mikaeshi) 58, 65–66, 79, 100, 264, 413, 415
and kabuki actors 59, 264, 265, 468n41
multicolor covers (suritsuke-byōshi) 51, 58, 62, 78, 96, 107, 108, 448n6
uncut covers (gōkan) 58
crest 215
actor’s crest 140–142
mock crest 249
publisher’s crest 19, 20, 61, 72, 74, 135
Daihi no myōchi Daruma no ichijiku (Extraordinary Buddhist Merit and the Scroll of the Dharma) 446–447
Daihi no senrokuhon (Thousand Arms of Goddess, Julienned) 152, 579, 593–594
daisen . title slip
Daishō arare urami no samezaya (Sizeable Hail: Sharkskin Scabbard of Ill Will) 409
danmari 92, 96–97
Davis, Julie Nelson 464
DeKoven, Marianne 8, 9
deluxe editions 88, 470, 576
digests 93n18, 446, 474
and akahon 122
of classic Japanese tales (in gōkan) 95
and kurohon-aohon 134, 151n10
of plays (gōkan) 29, 449, 450
utsushi gōkan 450n10 shōhon utsushi
Dokuritsu jiei eigyō kaishi annai (A Guide to Launching an Independent, Self-Run Business) 493–495
dōgō (firm name) 72, 74
Domsch, Sebastian 6
Dōningyō karada no karakuri (The Mechanism of a Human-Like Doll) 315–317
doppelganger dance (futa omote) 453, 457, 458
draft manuscript (kōhon, tanehon) 11, 87, 92, 93, 95, 97, 98, 344, 346
Drake, Chris 572
dream (as literary device) 337–339, 340, 344, 346, 349, 350
dream (as topic of kusazōshi) 235, 237, 320
Eagleton, Terry 26
early kusazōshi (shoki kusazōshi) 55, 71, 94, 127, 133, 197, 301, 339, 343, 438
contents of 120n8, 151n8, 158n27
definition of 15n54, 118
and jōruri (puppet theater) 158n27
key scholarship on 24n76, 27
pictorial style (visual conventions) 139, 153, 156–157 akahon; aohon; kurohon; kurohon-aohon
E ayatsuri nimen kagami 52
e-daisen (illustrated title slip) 13, 61–63, 88, 119, 193, 263, 413 . title slip
Edo kaimono hitori annai (Shopping Alone in Edo) 207n30, 474
Edo kanoko murasaki-zōshi (The Purple Booklet of the Edo Fawn) 435
Edo umare uwaki no kabayaki (Playboy, Roasted à la Edo) 305, 459, 513, 535, 548–551, 572, 579, 594
Egawa Tomekichi (block-cutter) 72
ehagakiya (picture postcards shop) 493
Ehō miyage toshi otoko (A Man of the Year with a Lucky Gift) 122n16
ehon (picture book) 49, 85, 340, 493, 494 . picture book
ehon banzuke (picture book playbills) 141, 367n21
Ehon butai ōgi (Picture Book: Fans of the Stage) 303, 303n9
Ehon odori-zukushi (A List of Dances Illustrated) 514–515, 515
Ehon tatoe-gusa (An Illustrated Anthology of Allegories) 272
Ehon Tōkaidō (The Tōkaidō Highway Illustrated) 151
Eijudō (publisher) 72 . Nishimuraya Yohachi
Eirakuya Tōshirō (publisher) 66n21
e’iribon (illustrated book) 84, 85
Eisenstein, Elizabeth 464n31
Eishōsai Chōki 154
Eisner, Will 4, 509, 580
emaki (pictorial scroll) 86, 208, 576, 577
Emiya (publisher) 122
Emmerich, Michael 26–27, 63, 77, 566–567, 584
E-moji oshie-gusa (Teaching Writing Made of Images) 287n80
e-monogatari (picture stories) 36, 551, 552, 553, 554 . manga; sashie shōsetsu
Enchi Fumiko 495
Endō Ishun 475
engeki kyakuhon (kabuki theater scripts) 86, 87
engeki shumi 29, 449
Enjirō’s nose 91, 182, 550
Enjudayū 453, 457n20
Enju hangon tan (Help! A Ninja Stole My Soul! The story of a man with just a month left to live) 594–595
En’naru kana onna sennin (The Girl Who Became a Taoist Immortal) 595
ergodic literature 275n47
e-sugoroku (board game) 151, 272, 273, 274
etoki (pictorial explanations) 122, 125, 324
etoki (reading mode) 150n5, 488, 489, 499
Eubanks, Charlotte 286
ezōshi (picture book) 486, 489, 490, 491
sold with jōruri practice books 494
synonym of gōkan 72, 383, 486, 502
synonym of kibyōshi 241
synonym of kusazōshi 244 picture book
ezōshiten 493 . ezōshiya
ezōshiya (picture book stores, type of publisher) 10n38, 301, 448, 472, 486, 495
and children 491, 494, 495
end of 491–493
and the Meiji Period 491–492
and musical practice books 472, 473 jihon doiya
e-zukushi (visual lists) 124, 125, 126, 140
Fresnault-Deruelle, Pierre 509, 518
Frey, Hugo 6, 8n32
Fuboku waka shū (A Selection of Japanese Poems) 91, 93, 93n18
Fujimi Saigyō e-zukushi (Parade of Pictures of Saigyō Contemplating Mt. Fuji) 140
Fuji no suso ukare no chōtori (The Foot of Mt. Fuji: Butterflies and Birds On the Wing) 429
Fujin tewaza jūnikō (Twelve Kinds of Handcrafts by Women) 305
Fujitarō kuruwa no hatsuyume (Fujitarō’s First Dream of the New Year) 302
Fujiwara Nagakiyo 92n18
Fujiwara Tameaki 92
fukiyose 94
Fukujin Soga (The Soga Brothers and the Gods of Fortune) 125
Fukujin yakusha metsuke-e (Gods of Fortune, Actors, “Guess the Picture”) 264
Fukumori Kyūsuke 411
fukuro . sales wrapper
fukuro-iri 88, 152, 152n13, 178n72
and kibyōshi 152 fukuro-zashi; sales wrapper
fukurotoji (type of binding) 50, 51, 61, 76
fukuro-zashi 152, 152n13, 232 . fukuro-iri; sales wrapper
Fukusendō (publisher) 75 . Kawaguchi Uhee
Fukushū kidan: Asaka numa 361
Fukutomi sōshi (The Tale of Fukutomi) 167, 168n45
Fukuzawa Yukichi 499
Fumiguruma murasaki-ganoko (A Cart of Beautiful Women, Lavender Dappling) 473–474
Fumizuki urami no kiriko (Seventh Month Multifaceted Lantern of Ill Will) 406, 407, 410, 416
Fumizuki urami no samezaya (Seventh Month Sharkskin Scabbard of Ill Will) 407, 411–413, 417, 425–427, 435
Fumono-zuki motta ga yamai (The Disease of Mere Accumulation) 246–247, 247n60
Fūraijin tengu no otoshi-dane (The God of Wind and the God of Thunder are Tengu’s Children) 158–159, 163
Furuki o metsuke-e (Finding Things of the Past: “Guess the Picture”) 263
Furu kuchiki (An Old Rotting Tree) 238–239
Furuteya Hachirobee (character in gōkan) 405–439
Fūryū Kantan: Ukiyo eiga makura (A Modish Kantan: A Pillow for Splendor in the Floating World) 235, 571, 591
Fūryū sennin no hanamuko (The Fashionable Story of a Bridegroom to an Ascetic) 235, 235n14
Fūryū Shidōken den (The Modern Life of Shidōken) 178n70
Fushigi-zuka shōsetsu-zakura (The Strange Mound and Cherry Blossoms of Shōsetsu) 221–222
Futa omote kachidoki kusakari-gama (The Two-Faced Victorious Sickle for Grass Cutting) 156n25
Fūzoku Taiheiki (A Fashionable Chronicle of the Great Peace) 140
gafu (model books) 49
gakō . illustrators (of kusazōshi)
gakō (rough sketches) 92
gakuya-ochi (insider joke) 342
Gangetsudō (publisher) 10n40 . Nishinomiya Shinroku
gannin bōzu 468
Gazoku zuihitsu (Essay on Refined and Vulgar) 406n3
geisha (professional entertainer) 239, 310, 310n18
Genji-e 222, 435
Genjikō no zu 64, 65n19
Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) 26, 65n19, 95, 222, 472, 548
Genroku kasen kai awase (A Shell Matching Game with Genroku Poets) 321–323
gesaku 5, 26, 73, 88, 232, 310, 349, 435, 473, 517
spirit of (auspiciousness, humor) 164, 164n37, 172, 459, 562
and twentieth-century authors 17, 501–503
writers 98, 350, 450, 511
gidayū no nukihon . nukihon
giga (playful pictures) 302, 306, 307, 310, 320, 321, 326
Gishi boom 486, 489
gishiden (stories of the Righteous Samurai) 486, 487
Gluck, Carol 501
go (board game) 271, 279, 281
Gōdanshō (The Ōe Conversations) 102
Go hyaku hachijū nana magari (Five Hundred and Eighty-Seven Turns) 140, 140n38
gōkan (combined booklets) 15, 18, 32, 33, 34, 35, 49, 76, 88, 90, 193–223, 320, 360–398, 405–439
adapting yomihon 214–218, 362, 387–389
asynchronous hiatus between images and narration 99–100, 183, 196–197, 201–206, 268
audio-vision 453
auditory (aurality, music, sound) 448, 451, 453, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460, 461, 468, 471, 472, 473, 474
chaban 429
and children 76, 207, 488
continuous design 208–213
covers of 57, 58–61, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 364–368, 365, 413, 414
emergence of 16, 150, 193
end of 16, 77, 487n5
English translations (bibliography updated Sept 2023) 589n1, 600–603
example of materiality (short gōkan) 413–417
example of plot (short gōkan) 268–269, 371–372, 417–425
extra-narrative comments 69–70, 70
ezōshi synonym of 72, 383, 486, 502
hen (Part) 53–55
how to read 196–197, 199
increased narration/text 71, 94–95, 98, 99, 193, 194, 209
and jōruri (puppet theater) 348, 405, 431
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 24n76, 26–27, 28, 29
and magic tricks (metsuke-e) 262–270, 270n22
materiality of 50, 53
Meiji period 54n11, 59, 100n26, 486, 487n5, 488, 579, 602–603
Meiji-period reprints of 566
metafiction 348, 356
mode of reading (looking as reading) 206, 207–208, 270, 301
and modern novel 435
paper 51, 51n5
reprinted as kibyōshi 107
riddle-like plot 203, 205, 206
sales wrappers 55, 56, 57
script compression 99, 100, 101
sekai 426–435
shukō 426–435
size of 51, 52
songs in 457, 461, 468, 473
and Sugiura Hinako 17
synonym of kusazōshi 501, 502
theater inclined 449–450, 457, 459
timeliness 386, 467, 468
title slip 59
turned into sekai 435
types of text in 194–201
and ukiyo-e 222, 390, 435, 460n26
utsushi gōkan (shōhon utsushi) 30, 450n1
writing for visual effect 219–222
yomihonization of the gōkan 567, 570, 572 ai-jirushi; chōhen gōkan; hottan; introductory illustrations; tanpen gōkan; tokusoku
actors’ likenesses; adaptation; honmon; Jippensha Ikku; kabuki actors; kabuki (theater); kakiire; Kyokutei Bakin; Ryūtei Tanehiko; Santō Kyōden; Shikitei Sanba; yomihon
gomonmegin 246
Goncourt, Edmond de 302n5
Goshiki Itako adana tsurebushi (Five-Color Adulterous Singalong in Itako) 408
Gozonji no shōbai mono (Those Familiar Bestsellers) 152, 157, 160, 173–174, 178n72, 232, 337–340, 351, 472–473, 518, 579, 595
graphic narrative 2, 8–9, 531
graphic novel 1, 4, 6, 8n32, 9, 505, 508, 509, 510, 515, 525, 530
Groensteen, Thierry 4, 509, 513
Gunbatei 308 . Hokusai
Gunji Masakatsu 459
Gunpō Fujimi Saigyō (Military Strategy: Saigyō Contemplating Mt. Fuji) 140
Gyochō gassen (The Quarrel of the Fish and the Birds) 129
Hachikazuki-hime (Princess Hachikazuki) (akahon) 132
Hachikazuki-hime (Princess Hachikazuki) (folklore/character) 18, 158n27
Hachiman-gane urami no mijikayo (Hachiman’s Bell: Short Summer’s Night of Ill Will) 407
Hachimonjiya (as anthropomorphized character, publisher) 472
Hachiya Mokitsu 234, 252, 261
haikai (linked poetry) 175, 394, 517
haishi 261n2
Haishishō (Notes on Haishi) 234, 261
haishi shōsetsu 87
Haishisō (A Compendium of Haishi) 261
Hajimete shibai o mita toki no koto (On Seeing Kabuki for the First Time) 445–446
Hakushi chōkeishū . Baishi zhangqing ji
Hakushi monjū . Baishi wenji
hakuwa shōsetsu (Chinese vernacular fiction) 562
Hanageshiki kitsune kōdan (A Flowery Landscape: Gossip around Foxes) 17
Hana no emi shichifuku mōde (The Smile of Flowers: The Pilgrimage of the Seven Lucky Gods) 245
Hana no shita naga monogatari (The Tale of a Long Stage Prologue) 170n49
Hana saki jiji (Flower-Blossoming Old Man) (folklore/character) 18, 121
Hanasaki-jiji (Flower-Blossoming Old Man) (gōkan) 438
Hanasaki-jiji (Hanasaki jijī, Flower-Blossoming Old Man) (sekai) 436–439
Hana Sanjin 91, 263
hanashibon (jestbook) 120n8, 179, 180, 207, 472 . kibyōshi
Hanashi kame (The Turtle of Stories) 179n76
Hana uirō (The Flowering Uirō) 140n39
Handan (Chinese tale) . Kantan ( play)
hangappa (type of raincoat) 238
hangishi . block-cutter
hanji-e (rebuses) 285, 286, 286n72, 287n80 . hanjimono
hanjimono (rebuses) 285–286, 287n80, 288, 289, 291 . hanji-e
hanmoto . publishers (of kusazōshi)
Hannichi kanwa (Half Day of Idle Talk) 236n19, 241–243
hanshibon (half-sized book) 51, 52, 111
Hanshichi torimonochō (Hanshichi’s Casebook) 490
hanshin (block heart) . hashira
hanshita . hanshita-e
hanshita-e (block-ready drawing) 95, 95n22, 97, 98, 103, 104, 324
hansuri . printer
Hara no uchi gesaku no tanehon (Within the Belly: A Sourcebook for a Frivolous Work) 88, 95, 348
Harikaeshi: Gyōgi arare (Repapering: The Appropriate Hailstone Pattern) 247n63
Haru asobi kigen-banashi (Stories of Spring Amusements that Lift the Spirit) 179, 180
Harvey, Robert 510
Hasegawa Kaitarō 502
Hasegawa Motohiro 433–435
Hashiguchi Kōnosuke 14
Hashimoto Tokubee (copyist) 97
hashira (pillar) 55
Hato Hachiman mame to tokkuri (Dove Hachiman’s Beans and Flasks) 429
Hatsu awase chishio no someiro (Matching Garments Dyed Blood-Red) 406n6
Hatsu haru no iwai (Celebrations for the New Year) 151
Hattori Yukio 409
Hayabiki setsuyōshū (Quick Search Dictionary) 243
Hayashi Fubō 502 . Hasegawa Kaitarō
Hayashi Wakaki 87, 114
Hayashi Yoshikazu 88, 95, 111, 179
Hearn, Lafcadio 398
Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) 371
Hemamushi nyūdō mukashi banashi (The Old Story of Monk Hemamushi, Sketched Using His Name) 221
hen (Part) . gōkan
henge buyō (dance, transformation plays) 469n43
Herman, David 8, 405n2
Heso ga wakasu sayu monogatari (The Ridiculous Tale of a Journey to the West) 301n1
Hibariyama gonichi no saezuri (Chirps of Tomorrow from Skylark Mountain) 111–113
Higashiyama (sekai) 417, 426
Higashiyama Dono 139, 413, 416 . Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Higashiyama Sakura sōshi (Higashiyama, the Tale of the Martyr of Sakura) 467
Hikikaeshi tatoe no makuaki 62
hikkō . copyist
hinagata-bon (book displaying kimono patterns) 262n4
Hiraga Gennai 168, 173
Hiragana seisuiki (The Hiragana Tale of Glory and Decline) 461
Hishikawa Moronobu 126
Hissei tora no hayashi 63
Hitogokoro kagami no utsushi-e (Projected Images, or the Mirror of the Human Heart) 281
Hitori Wankyū (dance) 468
Hōhiron (On Farts) 168n45
Hōhiron kōhen (On Farts: A Sequel) 168n45, 173
Hōjō Dansui 428
Hōjō Masako 371n34
Hōjō Yoshitoki 371n34
hōkashi (street performer) 421, 428, 429
hokku (seventeen-syllable poem) 561, 564, 583
Hokusai 34, 326, 470, 517, 520–521
author of kibyōshi 315, 316–320, 512
illustrator of kibyōshi 154, 302, 306, 307, 308, 315, 316–320
illustrator of surimono 321–323
and Kyokutei Bakin 315
and moji-e 288
and Santō Kyōden 306, 307, 512
visual punning 323, 324, 325
working as Gunbatei 308
working as Tokitarō Kakō 315, 512
and yomihon 309
Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketches) 306, 308, 308n17, 309, 320, 532
Honda hairstyle 159, 160, 177
Hongō-za Theater 486
honmon (main, running text) 69
in gōkan 194, 196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 203, 206, 209, 373, 438
in kibyōshi 166–167, 170, 172, 173, 174 ji no bun; kakiire
Honzentei Tsubohira 315
horishi . block-cutter
Hori Tatsuo 485–495, 496, 497, 499
Hōseidō Kisanji 156, 158n27, 162, 164, 238–239, 244, 252, 497
hottan (prologue in gōkan) 202, 203, 371, 373
humor 87, 177, 459, 469, 496, 533, 569
and anthropomorphization 305, 308, 472
and didacticism 314
gesaku 172, 562
giga 302
humorous books 276, 282n62
humorous design 281n61
incongruity (mismatch) 152, 308, 310, 343
jestbooks 179
in kibyōshi 26, 34, 66, 99, 150, 152, 153, 170, 172, 209, 232, 234, 261, 270n25, 275, 291, 472, 497
in kurohon-aohon 151n10
in manga 7n23
metafiction 348
sophistry 272
Hutcheon, Linda 363
Hyakki yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) 432n32, 434
Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Poets) 120n8, 323–324
Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (One Hundred Poets Explained by a Wetnurse) 302, 323–325
hyōshi . covers
hyōshiya (cover-maker) 113
Iba Kashō 156, 158
Ichiba Tsūshō 156, 245
Ichikawa Danjūrō V 303, 391, 392, 416, 417
Ichikawa Danjūrō VII 59, 413, 417
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX 474
Ichikawa Ebijūrō I 411
Ichikawa Hakuen 416 . Ichikawa Danjūrō V
Ichikawa Ichizō 411–412 . Ichikawa Ebijūrō I
Ichikawa Omezō I 391
Ichikawa Yaozō III 406n6
Ichimura-za Theater 141, 407, 407n6, 417
Ichiryū mankin dan (A Story of Millionaires Spending Money as they Wish) 231, 231n3
iconic solidarity 4, 4n6, 9, 535, 537n31
idioms 90, 560
anthropomorphized 302, 309–320, 335, 431
iibun 172n52 . kakiire; serifu
iji dōzu (synoptic narrative) 131–134, 131n28
Ikanobori kumoi monogatari (The Tale of the Kite in the Faraway Clouds) 200, 201
Ikazuchi Tarō gōaku monogatari (The Tale of ‘Thunder’ Taro the bandit) 601
Ikkadō Hansui 320
illiteracy 289
illustrators (of kusazōshi) (gakō) 19, 61, 76, 95–97, 154n19, 156, 261, 302, 315n27
and authorial agency 159, 569
doubling up as authors 98, 154, 315n27, 339
doubling up as copyists 97, 98
names acknowledged in books 53, 55, 63, 65, 301, 413
part of creative team 12, 23, 89, 108, 111, 516
payment of 12
popularity contest between 96
ukiyo-e artists 10, 61, 92, 95, 96, 153, 301, 302, 315, 511 Hokusai; Jippensha Ikku; kibyōshi; Koikawa Harumachi; Santō Kyōden; Tomikawa Ginsetsu
Im Ki 384
Imotarō he nikki banashi (Stories from Imotarō’s Fart Diary) 167–173
inbō mono (conspiracy stories) 362
Inge, M. Thomas 518
I no kaomise (The Showing of Faces of the Year of the Boar) 264n12
Inoue Hisashi 17, 496–502
Inoue Keiji 395
introductions (of kusazōshi) . prefaces (introductions, jo)
introductory illustrations (kuchi-e) 18, 66–68, 79, 96, 101, 202, 373, 416, 426, 427, 446, 447
kabuki actors in 391, 392, 416–417
Chinese poetry in 382n45
information about creative team in 61
role of 213–218
script of 69
Inu no sōshi (Whispers of Snow-Draped Plum Blossoms: The Tale of the Dogs) 96
Ippitsuan Eisen 473 . Keisai Eisen
Ippitsusai Bunchō 303
iregi (corrections to woodblocks) 104, 105
Iroeiri otogizōshi (Colored-In Companion Book) 407
Iroha bunko 56, 70
Ise dōchū (An Ise Atlas) 140n39, 151n8
Isei sensei yume makura (Mr Wet-Dozer’s Dream Pillow) 571, 595
Isei teikin ōrai (Unusual Exchange of Letters) 271
Ise monogatari (The Ise Tales) 548
Iseya Jisuke (publisher) 242
Ishida Giemon 249
Ishida Motosue 27, 87
Ishihara Tomomichi (copyist) 97
Ishii Kendō 493–495
Ishi no makura shunshōshō (Stone for a Pillow: A Spring Evening Extract) 202n21
Ishiuchi Chōsō 583, 585
Isshō hairu Fukubee ga saiwai (All Things Have Their Limit: Fukubee’s Fortune) 249, 250
ita kabu (ownership of woodblocks) 243
itakobushi (song) 239
Itasaka Noriko 13–14, 30, 219, 351n32
itaya (woodblock seller) 113
Ito-guruma kyūbi no kitsune (The Spinning-Wheel Nine-Tailed Fox) 194–197, 197n14, 209, 601
Itō Yohee (publisher) 408
Itsudai uroko gassen (The Unnamed Battle of the Fish-Scales) 129
Iwade (character) 431, 434
Iwaigushi Kumeno no adauchi (A Silver-Backed Comb: Kumeno’s Revenge) 194n5
Iwai Hanshirō V 219, 391, 392, 468
Iwai Kumesaburō II 59
Iwasaki, Haruko 394
Iwasaki Hitoshi 285n70
Iwata Hideyuki 30
Iwatoya (publisher) 16
Iwatoya Kisaburō (publisher) 364, 366
Izumiya Ichibee (publisher) 88
Izumo no Okuni 413, 416, 419
Izu nikki (sekai) 429n29
Izutsuya (publisher) 127–129
Jacobowitz, Seth 397
Jakusei 308
Jenkins, Henry 523
jestbook . hanashibon
Jiandeng xinhua (New Stories Told While Trimming the Lamps) 361, 362, 366–368, 375–378, 383–385
jiguchi 26, 120n8, 344, 345 . wordplay
jihon (lighthearted books, regional publications) 72, 85
jihon doiya (type of publisher) 10, 11, 14, 28, 301n3, 472 . ezōshiya
Jiji baba suzume hamaguri (The Old Man and Woman, the Sparrow, and the Clam) 437
ji no bun (narration) 122, 166 . honmon
Jippensha gesaku no tanehon (The Book of Ideas for the Playful Writings of Jippensha) 182, 344–345
Jippensha Ikku
author of gōkan 320, 437–438
author of kibyōshi 88, 154n19, 175, 182
as copyist 98
as illustrator 98, 154, 315n27
metafiction 344–345
Jiraiya gōketsu monogatari (The Tale of Jiraiya the Hero) 222, 490, 490n11
Jitsugokyō osana kōshaku (Teaching Real Words: An Explanation for Children) 512
jitsuroku (true accounts) 86, 446n3
Jōa . Kansuidō Jōa
jo . prefaces (introductions, jo)
Jōgen 168n45
Jones, Sumie 549, 579
Jōo, Fumiko 384
jōruri (puppet theater) 93n19, 436, 466, 473, 474, 575
and akahon 121, 121n12, 122, 125, 136, 140
and early kusazōshi 158n27
and ezōshi 494
and gōkan 348, 405, 431
and kabuki 406
and kibyōshi 239
and kurohon-aohon 120
musical texts/books 461, 463, 472 Kinpira jōruri; ko-jōruri
jōruri e-zukushi (illustrated books of puppet theater productions) 30
jōruri shōhon (playscripts for the puppet theater) 86, 87
Joshi shin shokan (New Letters for Women) 496
Jūjō Genji (Genji in Ten Fascicles) 238, 239, 239n29
jūroku musashi (board game) 262, 291
and children 271
and kibyōshi 273, 275–281
how to play 271
metaphorical value of 272, 273
Jūshichiya Magobee 249–251, 251n68, 353
Kabat, Adam 579
kabuki (theater) 97, 98, 140, 162, 195n7, 273, 372, 445, 447, 448, 467, 471, 473, 474, 511, 517, 518, 519
and akahon 30, 120, 121, 135, 140, 141
copy culture 467
and ezōshiya 472
and gōkan 28, 29–30, 35, 59, 90, 219, 222, 360, 362, 364, 367–368, 369, 373, 375–378, 390, 392, 396, 397, 405, 406–412, 425–427, 436, 445–475
kabuki scripts 451, 451n13, 458, 460, 474, 572
and kibyōshi 157, 232, 240, 241, 306, 342, 352
and kurohon-aohon 120, 151n10
and kusazōshi 28, 29–30, 35, 92, 96, 514, 541, 572
mediated through printed books 446
and music 35, 451, 453
and rakugo 467
script style 413, 415, 462–463 danmari; sekai-shukō dyad
kabuki actors 52, 157, 219, 348, 352, 392, 416–417
album of 13
as authors of gōkan 448, 450–451, 457
on covers 59, 365, 368, 413, 414
and fashion 240, 241–243
ukiyo-e prints of 124, 238, 303, 390
voices of 460 actors’ likenesses; ōmuseki (parrot stones)
Kabuki no hana botan-dōrō (Bloom of the Stage: The Peony Lantern) 53, 360–398, 409n8
Kabuki saiken (A Guide to Kabuki) 94
Kaburagi Kiyokata 492, 492n18, 493
Kachikachi yama (The Crackling Mountain) (folklore) 121, 494
Kachikachi yama (The Crackling Mountain) (unpublished gōkan) 438
kadogire (corner guards) 51
Kagamiyama (sekai) 451n16, 453
Kaguraoka Yōko 30
Kaidan botan-dōrō (A Ghost Story: The Peony Lantern) (kabuki) 361, 397
Kaidan botan-dōrō (A Ghost Story: The Peony Lantern) (rakugo) 361, 397
Kaidō ichi muneage Soga (The Soga Brothers Rule the City Streets) 140–141
Kaitai tanjō raku (The Paradise of Gestation and Birth) 590
kakiire (detached text) 69
in akahon 122
in gōkan 194–196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 201n20, 203, 206
in kibyōshi 166–167, 170, 172, 174 honmon; iibun; kogaki; serifu
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 324
Kakitsu Rebellion 417
Kakuchū chōji (A Clove in the Pleasure Quarters) 350, 596
Kaku ya ika ni no ki (An Account of How It is Thus) 435
Kamakura 231n2, 273
kameya zukin (type of headgear) 241, 243
Kaminari no hesokuigane (Stewing Away Your Money) 596
Kaminari no shiki banashi (Stories of Thunder in Four Seasons) 590
kan (booklet, key bibliographic unit in kusazōshi) 50, 50n2, 51–55, 71, 78, 193, 373, 413
Kanadehon chūshingura (Copybook of the Treasury of the Loyal Retainers) 56, 162, 463
Kanagaki Robun 100n26
Kanagawa-oki namiura (Under the Wave off Kanagawa) 520–521
Kanai Sanshō 394
Kana yomi hakkenden (Eight Dogs: A Kana Rendition) 96, 100–101
kanbun (literary Chinese) 69, 383–384
Kane mo yotsu urami no sakamachi (Late Night Bell: Sakamachi, Town of Ill Will) 407
Kankon shiryō (Recycled Paper) 124, 465–466
Kansei Reforms 25, 98, 99, 154, 245, 247, 247n62, 252, 274, 314, 561
Kansuidō Jōa 18, 18n70, 19, 156
Kantan ( play) 235, 571
Kantei Denshō 213
Kantei style (calligraphic style) 451, 451n13, 462
Kantōbei 413 . Shinrotei
Kanwatei Onitake 512
Kanze Matajirō (The Story of Kanze Matajirō) 139
kappa 430
Kappa no shirigodama (The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel) 596
karakami-byōshi 120, 157, 158n27
karakoto (type of language) 244
karazuri (blind printing) 57, 59–60, 67
Kareki ni hana sakase jiji (The Old Man Who Made Withered Trees Bloom) (akahon) 121, 133, 436
Karukuchi-banashi (A Lighthearted Story) 175, 176
karuta (game) 261, 281
Kasane and Yoemon (sekai) 451n16
kasanezuri (printing technique) 107
kashihon’ya (rental libraries) 76, 111, 252, 490
Kashiwaraya Yozaemon (publisher) 243
katakiuchi (revenge narrative, vendetta tale) 94, 152, 183, 193, 252, 266, 372, 437, 561
Katakiuchi aiyado banashi 59
Katakiuchi futamata-zuka (Revenge Story: The Forked Mound) 220–221
Katakiuchi kōkō-guruma (Revenge Story: A Vehicle for Filial Piety) 77, 193
Katakiuchi magai hachijō (Revenge Story: Lookalike Hachijō Silks) 408
katakiuchi-mono (revenge stories) . katakiuchi
Katakiuchi Nomitori manako (The Vendetta of Mr. Fleacatcher Managorō, The Fifth) 560–586, 596
Katakiuchi Okazaki joroshu (Revenge Story: Courtesans of Okazaki) 209, 210–211
Katakiuchi samisen no yurai (A Vendetta Tale: The Curious Connection with the Shamisen) 165–167
Katakiuchi uona no tsurugi (A Vendetta Tale: The Fish Famous Sword) 164n36
Katakiuchi Yanagi Shirobee 73
kataoshi (relief molding) 107
Katsu Hyōzō II 450
Katsukawa School 153
Katsukawa Shundō 153
Katsukawa Shun’ei 306n14
Katsukawa Shunkō II 516
Katsukawa Shunrō 153, 512 . Hokusai
Katsukawa Shunsen 88, 95–96, 408, 516 . Katsukawa Shunkō II
Katsukawa Shunshō 303, 303n8
Kawaguchi Shōzō (publisher) 408
Kawaguchi Uhee (publisher) 75
Kawajiri Seitan 475
Kawanabe Kyōsai 307, 307n16, 320
Kawarasaki-za Theater 407
Kawatake Mokuami 450
Kawatake Shinshichi III 361, 397, 446n3
kayō (song) 121 . song(s)
Kayoi Komachi (Komachi and the Nightly Visits) 239, 239n30
Kazusaya Chūsuke (publisher) 13
Keene, Donald 580
Keihitsu toba-guruma (A Cart of Toba-Style Pictures in a Light Touch) 310–312
Keiko shamisen (Shamisen Practice) 473
Keisai Eisen 97, 276, 409n9, 473
Keisei fukubiki Nagoya (Courtesan’s Lottery for Nagoya Sanza) 461
Kengu irikomi sentō shinwa (Gathering Pool of Sages and Fools: A New Tale of the Bath) 350n30
Kentei Bokuzan 262, 264, 267, 269, 292
kentō (registration marks) 107
Kern, Adam L. 6, 23, 24, 25–26, 61, 292n88, 519, 530, 533, 535, 548, 549, 561, 568–569, 579–580, 584
Keshinosuke 428–429
Keshinosuke II 429
Kezairoku (Valuable Notes on Playwriting) 410, 436
Kibi no Makibi 102
kibyōshi (yellow-cover books) 15, 69, 71, 87, 90, 150–183
actors’ likenesses in 30, 238
anthropomorphization in 305, 306–308, 310, 311, 312–320
aohon synonym of 15, 18, 21, 107, 121, 152, 152n12, 160, 173, 178n72, 179, 232, 242, 340
artists (illustrators) of 96, 153–154, 154n19, 156, 301, 302
authors of 96, 152, 154, 154n19, 156, 164
and comic books (comix) 6, 515, 518, 521
and the contemporary world 231–252, 343
divine messages in 348
double-page spreads as discrete sections 151–152, 153, 177–182, 209, 275n48, 287
early modern evaluations of 24, 120, 156n22
emergence of 16, 18, 77, 120, 152, 231, 514
English translations (bibliography updated Sept 2023) 592–600
ezōshi synonym of 241
fashionable language 172, 244–245
fashion in 33, 153, 159, 160, 162, 239, 240
fracture between text and images 173–175
and fukuro-iri 152
and Hakubunkan 565–567
and hanashibon (jestbooks) 179–182
and Hokusai 34, 154, 302, 308–309, 315–320, 512
and idiomatic/figurative language 302, 309–320, 335
as illustrated narratives 566
and Inoue Hisashi 36, 497–500
and jōruri (puppet theater) 239
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 24n76, 25–26, 28, 29
loose plot (low narrativity) 152, 177, 209, 318, 320, 335, 346
and manga 530, 533, 551
metafiction 34, 335–356
mise en page 165–172, 197, 564
monetized economy in 246–247
and music 459
number of 24
pictorial style (visual conventions) 153, 154, 156, 158–164
and play 262, 270–291
post Kansei era 99, 182, 183, 274
reading order in 197
reissued as gōkan 193, 281
and satire 11, 25, 26, 28, 87, 247, 314, 515, 530, 561
and sharebon 87, 340
songs in 239, 240, 353
and Sugiura Hinako 17
and surimono 321–325
title slip 62
and ukiyo-e 303–305, 325
wordplay 26, 172 honmon; humor; Jippensha Ikku; kabuki (theater); kakiire; Koikawa Harumachi; Kyokutei Bakin; readers (of kusazōshi); Santō Kyōden; Shikitei Sanba
Kibyōshi hyakusen . Kibyōshi hyakushu
Kibyōshi hyakushu 497–500, 498n30, 565–566, 567, 577
Kii zōdan shū 361
Kiji mo nakazu wa (If the Pheasant Doesn’t Call: Strange Tales from Nakazu) 248–249, 250, 351–354, 351n32
kiketsushi . block-cutter
Kiku judō kasumi no sakazuki (Chrysanthemum Boy’s Hazy Sake Cup) 100n26
Kikuju no sakazuki (Felicitous Flowery Sake Cups) 179, 179n73
Kikujusō (Flowery Felicitations) 24, 120–122, 156n22, 172n52, 178n72, 231–232
Kimbrough, Keller R. 27, 534, 537, 574–577, 579
Kimura Yaeko 4, 24, 28, 29, 30, 96, 113, 119, 121, 121n12, 122, 135, 151, 151n10
Kin (Kin) 129, 130
Kingin sensei mata ne no yume (Mr Gold and Silver, Another Dream) . Fumono-zuki motta ga yamai
Kinkin sensei eiga no yume (Mr Glitter ’n’ Gold’s Dream of Splendor) 33, 179, 303
analysis of 231–252
and comic books 569
dream motif 337, 349
fashion in 160
first kibyōshi 16, 77, 120, 152, 154n20, 231, 514
homage to 159
newness in images 162n35
and pleasure quarters 340
translations of 570, 571, 572, 596–597
Western-style perspective 521
Kinkin sensei zōka no yume (Mr Glitter ’n’ Gold’s Dream of Creation) 570, 597
Kinokuniya Bunzaemon 245, 245n49
Kinpira jōruri 122, 125, 157, 158n27
Kinpira kotobuki happyaku yonen no fuda (Kinpira’s Eighty Hundred Years Longevity Charm) 122, 123
Kinsei kiseki kō (Thoughts on Recent Wonders) 385
Kinsei mono no hon Edo sakusha burui (Early Modern Books and a Taxonomy of Edo Authors) 26n86, 282n62
kirazuri (printing technique) 107
Kiri-za Theater 406n6
Kiruna no ne kara kane no naru ki (Chop Not the Roots of the Money Tree) 247
Kishida Tohō 154
Kitagawa Tsukimaro 262, 320
Kitagawa Utamaro 154, 302, 303, 305, 326, 511
Kitamura Nobuyo 271n27
Kitao Masanobu 153, 154, 305, 338n11, 518, 535 . Santō Kyōden
Kitao Masayoshi 153, 158, 469
Kitao School 153, 156, 158
Kitao Shigemasa 96, 97, 153, 156, 270, 314, 315–316, 361, 511, 561
Kitao Shigemasa II 408, 409, 413
Kitaya Magobee (publisher) 307n16
Kitō 450, 457, 457n21 . Tsuruya Magotarō
kiyomoto (music) 453, 461
Kiyū 12
Kiyū shōran (Survey of Interesting and Entertaining Facts) 271n27
Kobayashi Fumiko 12, 164
Kōbunsha Seishi 462–463
Kodama Kagai 493
Kōda Rohan 490–491, 495
Kōdō Tokuchi 566–567
kogaki 194, 195, 196, 197, 199 . kakiire
Kōguya Yahee (character in gōkan) 406, 410, 411, 418, 419, 421–432
kōhon . draft manuscripts
Koikawa Harumachi 18, 156, 158, 167, 179
and actors’ likenesses 303n9
author of kibyōshi 167, 173, 235, 282–283, 291, 308, 310, 312
and idioms 312
as illustrator 21, 153, 156, 159, 160, 315n27
inaugurating kibyōshi 16, 164, 231
Kinkin sensei eiga no yume 231–252
praises of 159, 159n32, 231
and ukiyo-e 303
writing about kusazōshi 158n27
Koike Tōgorō 281n61, 362
Koi sōba hana no yo arashi (A Price for Love and a Peony Night Storm) 100n26
Koitsu wa Nippon (This is Japan) 245
Koizuka monogatari (The Tale of the Tomb of Love) 131
kojitsuke (sophistry) 272n36, 282n63, 562
ko-jōruri 93n19, 126
kokatsujibon (movable-type printed books) 84
Kokin waka shū (A Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poetry) 173
kokkeibon (comic fiction) 86, 87, 196n9, 429, 473
Kokon gaidanroku 241–242, 242n41
koma-e (in kusazōshi) 275, 277, 278, 281, 282, 292
koma-e (in manga) 552
Kōmansai angya nikki (The Travelogue of Narcissist Kōmansai) 159, 234, 307–308
komikku (komikkusu) 531
Kondō Kiyoharu 121, 127, 129
Kornicki, Peter 464
Korori sansho miso (Quick Death, Pepper, and Miso) 158–159, 161
Kōshijima toki ni aizome (Modish Pattern of a Confucian Stripe) 247n63, 247n64, 249–251
Koshikata no ki (Record of Times Past) 492
kōshō (antiquarian/evidential scholarship/research) 362, 385
kōshokubon (sexually explicit books) 105
kotobagaki 208
Kotoba tatakai atarashii no ne (The Battle of Words Seeking for a Root of Novelty) 158n27, 245, 312
Kotobuki Kintarō-zuki (The Auspicious Moon of Kintarō) 286n72
kotowaza (proverbs) 310, 325 . idioms
Kotowaza heso no yadogae (Proverbs That Make You Burst Out Laughing) 320
Kottōshū (Curios) 385
Kowakizashi yume no chōzame (A Short Blade: Sturgeon from a Dream) 408
Kubo Shunman 323
Kubota Keiichi 164n37
kuchi-e . introductory illustrations
Kudamaki (Jabbering Over a Cup) 169n46
Kujira-zashi Shinagawa-baori (A Whalebone Foot-rule for a Shinagawa Jacket) 349, 351n32, 354, 355
Kūjo Yoritsune 371n34
Kumo no itomaki (The Spider’s Thread) 178n71
Kunzle, David 509
kurohon (black [cover] books) 15, 156n25, 438, 550, 551, 577
anthropomorphized character of 340, 472
and children 472, 548
contents of 30, 120, 151, 151n10
covers of 63
development of 118, 119
dream motif 338
e-daisen (illustrated title slip) 63
emergence of 16, 77
key features at a glance 77–79
mangaesque reading of 539–543
and medieval tales 535
pictorial focalization 545
pictorial style (visual conventions) 158, 159, 160
sound in 537
translation of 574
under-researched 27 early kusazōshi; kurohon-aohon
readers (of kusazōshi)
kurohon-aohon (black/light-green [cover] books) 49, 76, 119, 142, 312
cartouches in 136
contents of 120, 134, 150n10
English translations (bibliography updated Sept 2023) 590–592
inspired by theater 120
and jōruri (puppet theater) 120
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 29
materiality of 51, 52, 52n8, 53, 53n9, 55, 69
mise en page 127n24, 129
number of 24
prefaces in 66
publishers’ catalogue in 74
sleeve marks 140
and synoptic narratives 131, 134 aohon; early kusazōshi; kurohon
readers (of kusazōshi)
Kuroishi Yōko 151n10
Kurotobi Shikibu 12
Kusabana-zukushi (A Collection of Flowers and Grass) 126
kusazōshi (graphic narratives)
aohon synonym of 107, 266, 459
access to 24
binding 50–51, 109, 568
borrowing 490, 491
captions in 66, 70, 122, 127, 136, 166
changes in covers’ colors 119–120
and chapbooks 6, 7, 7n26, 568–569, 570
circulation of 242, 252, 282n62
colophon in 66, 79
and comic books 6, 7, 9, 25, 505, 506, 513, 515–516, 522, 554, 569, 580
as comix 6, 510–525
definition of 9
development of 15, 16, 17–18, 18–22, 49, 77, 119, 120
early modern evaluations of 23–24, 120, 156n22, 172n52, 178n72, 231, 233–234, 261
early modern histories of 17–24, 100n26, 154–164
end of 16, 77, 487n5, 488, 502
and ehon 85–86
ezōshi synonym of 244
featuring magicians (street performers) 429
fluidity of 446–447, 471
as genre 10, 18
as graphic narratives 8–9, 511, 554
handling of 76, 353, 354
happy ending in 269, 382, 425
key features at a glance 77–79
key scholarship on 25–30, 86–88
and manga 6, 6n18, 7, 9, 36, 505, 506, 530, 554
mangaesque reading of 36, 531, 534, 537, 548
as medium 9–10, 15, 18, 23, 24, 32, 87, 487, 488
modes of appreciation 488, 489, 495, 499, 501
multimodality as a key feature of 7, 8, 9, 15, 19
and music 459
and New Year 91, 109, 118, 120, 121, 165, 172, 207, 242, 382, 446
number of 24, 113
origins of the name 5, 51
paper 5, 51, 59, 232, 530
as picture books 6, 7, 15n58, 549
play in 33, 261–292
price of 13, 110n34, 111, 354
print run 14
proof reading 104, 105, 113
publishing process 90–110
reading habits 134, 150n5, 171, 172, 206, 207, 269–270, 301, 486, 489
reading images 310
sales period 91
script in 11, 66, 68, 69, 85, 104, 170n50, 291, 384, 490
sequentiality and 4, 9, 513
size 51
social function 490
synonym of gōkan 501, 502
time of publication 91, 241, 242–243, 242n43
transcriptions of 24, 29, 560, 565
types of text in 69
writers’ fees 12, 110 akahon; aohon; authors (of kusazōshi); early kusazōshi; gōkan; illustrators (of kusazōshi); kibyōshi; kurohon; kurohon-aohon; Meiji Period; publishers (of kusazōshi); readers (of kusazōshi); translations (of kusazōshi)
kabuki (theater); ukiyo-e
Kusazōshi kojitsuke nendaiki (A Twisted Chronicle of Kusazōshi) 18–23, 233, 438, 438n42, 597
Kusazōshi nendaiki (A Chronicle of Kusazōshi) 18–19, 21, 154–158, 160, 162, 164, 438n42, 597
Kusazōshi no iroiro (The Various Types of Kusazōshi) 87
Kusazōshi Studies 36, 506, 523, 524
kusazōshi-tai (kusazōshi style) 199–200
Kusunoki Masashige 177, 494
Kuwagata Keisai 153 . Kitao Masayoshi
Kuzunoha (character) 94
Kuzunoha (jōruri) . Ashiya Dōman ōuchi kagami
Kyan Taiheiki mukō hachimaki (Swaggering Headbands: A Chronicle of Urban Knight-Errantry in a Peaceful Realm) 11
kyōgen 339, 339n12
kyōgenbon (illustrated kabuki script, theater digest) 466, 474
kyōgen e-zukushi (collections of images from plays) 141
Kyōgen suehiro no sakae (Comical Story of Gradual Prosperity) 305
kyōgōbon (corrected manuscript) 104, 105
kyōka (mad verse) 152, 164n37, 165n39, 175, 182, 321, 325, 325n44, 326
kyōka ehon (mad-verse picture books) 85
Kyōkun nazonazo haru no yuki (Educational Riddles: Snow in Spring) 276
Kyokutei Bakin 113, 180n78, 301, 354, 465, 511, 563, 565
and actors’ likenesses 30, 219, 392
author of gōkan 72, 392, 408
author of kibyōshi 154n19, 270, 272–275, 277–281, 282, 282n62, 284–289, 291, 561, 562
author of yomihon 562
and hanjimono (rebuses) 288, 289
and Hokusai 315
and metafiction 346
and moji-e 288, 289
and pictograms 288
Ryūtei Tanehiko on 199
writing about kusazōshi 5, 14, 26, 104n30, 152, 282n62
writing about yomihon 369
Kyōsai hyakuzu (One Hundred Pictures by Kyōsai) 307n16, 320
Langya daisuibian (A Sober Anthology from Langya) Rōya daisuihen
Lefevere, André 585
Lent, John 522
Lindau, Rudolph 150
linked poetry . haikai
literacy 14, 18, 69n24, 85, 370, 525
cultural 37, 102
paleographic 560, 561
visual 263n7
lotteries (tomikuji) 237, 237n22, 352n37
Lu Bao 246
Lusheng 234, 235, 571
mad verse . kyōka
mamezō . hōkashi
manga 1, 1n2, 4, 6, 16–17, 36, 114, 438
and adaptation 535, 545, 548
and children 532, 551, 553
cinematic 532, 541–543, 554
and comix 510, 523, 524
and humor 7n23
and kibyōshi 530, 533, 551
and kusazōshi 6, 6n18, 7, 9, 36, 505, 506, 530, 554
media mix 517
notions of 531–533, 532n13, 534, 539, 552, 553n59, 554
script/fonts 544, 545, 551
self-reflexivity 518
theatrical 542, 543 e-monogatari (picture stories); sashie shōsetsu (illustrated novels); story-manga
Manga Studies 531–535, 542
Mano furi o shite (Mimicking a Connoisseur) 245
Mantei Onitake 512 . Kanwatei Onitake
Manzōtei 302 . Morishima Chūryō
Marceau, Lawrence 519
Maruko (publisher) 18
Maruya Kohee (publisher) 156
Masaki Yumi 412
Masaoka Shiki 495
Maschio, Paola 281
Matsuda Aoko 398n91
Matsudaira Uneme no Shō Sadamoto 467n39
Matsumoto Kōshirō IV 351n33
Matsu no nochi (After the Pine Tree) 141–142
Matsuo Bashō 561
Maus 518
Mazu yonde Mikuni Kojorō (First of All Just Give It a Read: Kojorō of Mikuni) 193
McCloud, Scott 507, 508–509, 510, 514, 580
medetasa (auspiciousness) 164
mediality 9, 531
media mix 516, 517, 518
Meguro (place) 234, 236, 237, 238
Meidai 124
Meido no hikyaku (The Courier of the Afterlife) 352
Meiji gekidan: Ranpu no moto nite (Meiji Theater Talk: Beneath the Lamp) 490–491, 494–495
Meiji Period (1868–1912) 285, 398, 445, 501
and ezōshiya (picture books stores) 491–492
and gishiden (stories of the Righteous Samurai) 486–487
gōkan published in 54n11, 59, 100n26, 486, 487n5, 488, 579, 602–603
intellectuals on kusazōshi 113
and kusazōshi-style (kusazōshi-tai) 199–200
readers 566
reprints of gōkan 566
sea change in kusazōshi 77, 109, 487n5, 567
meriyasu (song/music) 453, 461
metafiction 12, 31, 34, 319
and ambiguity 353
communal space 339, 340, 351, 354, 356
and creative inspiration 346, 348
criticizing the author 343, 344
criticizing the contents 348–351
as cues of interpretation 353
definition of 334
education for readers 356
and extradiegetic readers 351–355
and humor 348
in kusazōshi 334–356
metafictional notes 70
and theater 339, 348 self-reflexivity
metsuke (inspector) 261
Metsuke-e (akahon) 151n6
Metsuke-e (Iwasaki Bunko) 263
metsuke-e (magic trick) 120n8, 263, 291
and adults 263–264
and children 263
and gōkan 262–270, 270n22
how to play 262–263
oldest surviving copy of 262n4
pedagogical use of 263n7 Otogi banashi ada o: Metsuke-e
Mibu kyōgen (Mibu pantomime) 459, 459n24
Miburi-banashi sugata hakkei (Eight Views of Figures Gesturing and Talking) 207
Michitose ni naru chō uwabami (The Great Serpent Turns 3,000 Years Old) 598
mie 97, 157
mikaeshi (inside front cover) . covers
Mikawa-jima go-Fudō ki (The Diary of Lord Fudo of Three River Island, Edo) 598
mikka hatto 243
Minamoto (clan) 271
Minamoto no Yoritomo 270, 272, 275
Minamoto no Yoshitsune 158n27, 270, 272, 275
Miru ga toku issui no yume (A Worthwhile Revelation: A Dream on Kantan’s Pillow) 571, 572, 598
Misujidachi kyaku no ki Ueda (Triple-striped Ueda Silk, Woven with Playboys’ Whims) 598
mitate 323
Mitchell, W.J.T. 9, 511
mitsuga 532
Miyato-gawa sanja no amibune (Trawling with a Net in Miyato River, the Three Shrines) 199
Mizoro ga ike ryūjo no riyaku (The Blessings of the Dragon Woman of Lake Mizoro) 17–18, 99–100, 213
Mizuno Minoru 28, 182–183, 275, 337, 362, 572
Mizutani Futō 153–154, 177, 182–183
moegi (color) 15, 118n2
moji-e 288, 289, 291
Moji-e zukushi (Lists of Pictures Made of Writing) 288n82
Momotarō (Akahon Revival: The Tale of Momotarō) 438
Momotarō (The Tale of Momotarō) (folklore/character) 18, 121, 133, 173, 306, 494
Momotarō hottan-banashi (A Tale of the Origin of the Story of Peach Boy) 306–307, 512
Momotarō mukashi-gatari (The Old Tale of Momotarō) 173n55, 437
Monjū . Baishi zhangqing ji
monogatari-e (narrative pictures) 208
monogatari emaki (narrative pictorial scrolls) 576
monogatari kaiga (narrative art) 533
Monokusa Tarō (rabukome) (Comicalizing the Classics: Lazy Tarō, a Love Comedy) 535, 543–548
Moretti, Laura 27, 394n79, 568
Morishima Chūryō 302
Morita-za Theater 124, 238, 239n29, 364, 409n8
Moriya Jihee (publisher) 11, 264, 408
Muchū Sanjin Negoto Sensei 244
muda (frivolity, uselessness) 26, 28, 244, 344, 345, 500
Mudaiki (The Useless Forecast of the Future) 177–179, 178n72, 247n61, 310, 311
Muda karuta (Useless Trump Cards) 261–262, 281
Muda kurabe chaban no tanehon (No Point in Comparing: Model for a Farce) 429
Muhitsu setsuyō nita ji zukushi (Illiterate Dictionary with Lists of Mock-Characters) 281–291, 282n62, 292
mukashi banashi (folklore tales) 120, 436, 437
Mukashi banashi tegai no fukuinu (The Old Tale of the Domesticated Dog of Good Fortune) 437–438
Mukashi-gatari inazuma-byōshi (A Tale of Time Long Past: Lightening on the Cover) 214–218
Mukashi moyō kabuki no hinagata (A Kabuki Design Book: Patterns in the Old Style) 450–453, 454, 457
Mukashi mukashi kabuki monogatari (Old, Old Tales of Kabuki) 474
Mukashi uta kuruwa no hajimari (An Old Song: Beginning of the Pleasure Quarters) 111n35, 197–199
Muken no kane (song) 461, 468
multimodality 27, 32, 35, 172, 360, 363, 383, 393
and comic books (comics) 4
definition of 1
and graphic narratives 8
key feature of kusazōshi 7, 8, 9, 15, 19
and manga 36 co-mixing
Murakami Ihee (publisher) 243
Muromachi-dono sakura hana butai (Lord of Muromachi: Cherry Blossom Stage) 406
Muro sodachi muko no irifune (A Cherished Son Turned Bridegroom Comes by Boat) 171–172
Musashibō Benkei 270–272
Musha-zukushi (A Warrior Line-Up) 126
Musōbyōe kanryaku makura 58
Musume kyōgen sankatsu banashi 75
Myōyō Dōjin 100n26 . Kanagaki Robun
Nagai Kafū 501
Nagaiki mitaiki (Records One Wants to See with a Long Life) 247n61
Nagatomo Chiyoji 89
nagauta (type of music) 461, 468, 472
naidai (internal title) 105
naimaze 94, 395, 396 . sekai; shukō
Naitō Meisetsu 445–448, 450, 474
Nakamichi (copyist) 75 . Chikata Nakamichi
Nakamura Bō 361
Nakamura Kichibee 124
Nakamura Nakazō I 417
Nakamura Shikan II 470
Nakamura Shūkaku 417 . Nakamura Nakazō I
Nakamura Tomijūrō 468n41
Nakamura Utaemon IV 445–446
Nakamura Yukihiko 27–28, 152n12, 166, 170, 172n52, 175, 394
Nakamura-za Theather 135, 140, 141, 406, 407, 411, 446, 467, 469, 470
Nakano Mitsutoshi 88, 156n22, 157n26, 341
Nakayama Tomisaburō 406n6
Namaei katagi (Characters of Drunkards) 473
Nanakusa fukuju Soga (The Soga Brothers and the Seven Herbs of Longevity and Fortune) 141
Nan chōhōki (A Treasury for Men) 271
Nandaka Shiran 156
naniwabushi (type of music) 486, 489
Naniwa no ume (Plum of Naniwa) 179n76
nanryō nishugin 231, 246
Nansenshō Somahito 73, 165, 167, 183, 193
Nansenshō Somahito II 409n9 . Tamenaga Shunsui
Nansō Satomi hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Fusa) 95, 96, 292n88
Nansui man’yū (Nansui’s Travels) 406n3
Naoe Jūbee 457n21
Nara ehon 465
narrativity 9n33
natsubo (name tags) 69, 70, 71, 264 . sode-jirushi
Natsume Sōseki 474
nazo . riddle(s)
Nenashigusa yume monogatari (The Dream Tale of Rootless Weeds) 601
Nendaiki (chronological table of historical dates) 154
Nenshi orei chō (The New Year’s Visitors’ Book) 165n39
netsuke 517, 518
Nezumi Bunshichi (The Tale of Bunshichi the Rat) 140–141
Nezumi no hanami (The Mice’s Blossom Viewing) 151n7
Nezumi no yomeiri (The Rat Wedding) (akahon) 125n19, 151n6, 590
Nezumi no yomeiri (The Rat Wedding) (unpublished gōkan ) 438
Nidaime Arashi Sangorō no Monogusa Tarō 238n26
Nido no kake katsu iro Soga (Charging Again: An Indigo Soga) 406n6
nigao-e . actors’ likenesses
Nihonjinron (Japanese cultural uniqueness) 506, 511
Nikolajeva, Maria 131n28
ninjōbon (sentimental fiction) 86, 87n7, 196n9, 409n9, 502
Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki’s Bumpkin Genji) 53–54, 490, 490n11, 495
bibliographic translation of 566–567, 580n43
critical edition of 24n76
decorated back covers 63–65, 64
draft manuscript 92, 93
Higashiyama sekai 417
key scholarship on 27
successor works 435
translations of 584n48, 601–602
and ukiyo-e (Genji-e) 222, 435
usuzumi in introductory illustrations 66–67, 68
nishiki-e 72, 305, 390, 492, 493, 495 . ukiyo-e
Nishimura Shigenobu 173n55, 511
Nishimuraya (publisher) 133
Nishimuraya Yohachi (publisher) 72, 214, 460, 460n26
Nishinomiya Shinroku (publisher) 10–11, 13, 14, 62
(play) 235, 239, 571
Nomikonda reihō engi (The Origins of Sacred Treasures Well Understood) 234
nontrivial effort 275n47
Norakuro 542–543
Nozaki Sabun 206–207, 269–270, 301n2
Nozoite miru tatoe no fushiana (Looking into a Loophole of Proverbs) 315, 316
nukihon 10n38, 466, 472
Nyūgatei Ga’nyū 410
ochi (humorous final twist) 429
Ō-chigai takarabune (A Very Different Kind of Treasure Ship) 343–344
Odori hitori-geiko (Practice Dancing on Your Own) 470–471
Odoshi Kinpira 123
Ōgi no hajimari (The Fan Unfurls) 126
Ogyū Sorai 243n44
O-heso ga fuku chaban (Luck of the Belly Button Farce) 429
oie sōdō (domestic struggle) 94
Okada Mariko 461
Okame hachimoku (Bystanders See it Better) 24
Okamoto Kidō 490–491, 494–495
Oka Sanchō (copyist) 97
Okazakiya Kanroku 451n13
ōkubi-e (close-up portraits) 303–305
Ōkubo Jun’ichi 208–209, 212
Okumura furu-e (Okumura’s Old Pictures) 133–134, 437
Okumura Masanobu 133, 139, 437
Okuni gozen keshō no sugatami (Lady Okuni: The Makeup Mirror) 360, 361, 409n8
genealogy of The Peony Lantern 368, 383
and gōkan 362, 363, 369, 397, 409n8
inspired by Ukibotan zenden 369
performance 364
plot of 375–378
reuse of design from 367–368, 368, 390–391
Santō Kyōden attending performance 369 Kabuki no hana botan-dōrō
Okuni gozen keshō no sugatami (Lady Okuni: The Makeup Mirror) (tsuji banzuke) 367–368, 368, 390
Ōmisoka akebono sōshi (New Year’s Eve Book of the Dawn) 496, 496n26
omocha-e (toy pictures) 272n31 . te-asobi
Ōmugaeshi bunbu no futamichi (Parroting the Precepts of the Twofold Path of Learning and Martial Arts) 245n54, 251n68, 598
ōmuseki (parrot stones) 448, 448n6, 467, 472
O-nagusami chūshingura no kangae (For Your Entertainment: The Treasury of the Loyal Retainers to be Solved) 286, 599
ongyoku (music) 459
Onikojima homare no adauchi (Lauded Revenge by Onikojima) 220
Oni no shikogusa (The Demon Girl Comes to Edo) 599
Onna chūsetsu nimen kagami 99
onnagata (female-role playing kabuki actor) 52
Onna moyō inazuma-zome (A Ladylike Lightning-shaped Pattern) 202–206, 214–218, 219
Onna yō chie kagami takara ori (A Mirror of Wisdom for Women, Treasure Weaving) 279n55
Onoe Eizaburō I 368, 391
Onoe Kikugorō III 411
Onoe Matsusuke I 391
Onoe Matsusuke II 411, 426 . Onoe Kikugorō III
Ono no Komachi 156–159
Ono no Takamura 282, 284, 287
Ono no Takamura uta ji zukushi (Ono no Takamura Poems and List of Characters) 282–284, 284n67
ōraimono (textbooks) 102, 465, 465n36
Orokugushi Kiso no adauchi (Oroku’s Comb and the Revenge in Kiso) 213, 602
Ōsakaya Mokichirō (publisher) 409n9
Ōshū Adachigahara (Adachigahara in Michinoku Province) 431–432
Ōshū Aizu katakiuchi yaiba no kidan (The Wondrous Tale of Ōshū Aizu’s Vendetta and his Sword) 446n3
Ōta Nanpo 236n19, 245
on kusazōshi 120–121, 156n22, 231–232, 241, 243
and kyōka (mad verse) 164
otogi banashi (medieval tales) 120
Otogi banashi ada o: Metsuke-e (A Companion Story of Revenge Turned into “Guess the Picture”) 262–270, 291–292
Otogi bōko (Companion Dolls) 361, 366–368, 366n18, 375–378, 383, 385–387
otogizōshi (medieval tales) 86, 535, 575, 576, 577
Otokodate futatsu chōchō (Two Gallant Men: Chō[goro] and Chō[kichi]) 220
Otoko Tarō: Pechakucha munyamunya usan-banashi (Otoko Tarō: A Strange Tale, Full of Slobber and Blather) 17
Ōtomo no matori (The Tale of Ōtomo no Matori) 125n19, 140n39
otoshi-banashi . hanashibon
Otoshi-banashi eritachi-gome (The Province of Laughter: A Splendid Robe) 180–182, 181 . Teren itsuwari nashi
Ōtsu-e 310, 320
Otsuma and Hachirobee (sekai) 405, 406, 410, 411, 412, 426, 428, 433, 435
Outcault, Richard 507
out-of-body shots 545n51
Oya no kataki uteya hara tsuzumi (Give Your Parents’ Enemy a Sound Beating the Stomach Drum) 497–500, 498n30
Oya-yuzuri hana no kōmyō (The Boasting of Prominent Nose Inherited from Parents) 308
paratext(s) 14, 56, 58, 65, 66, 264, 361, 364–370
ōzatsuma (shamisen style) 448
Parodi shigan (Aspiring to Parody) 496–503
parody 90, 120n8, 159n32, 170, 173, 239, 284n67, 291, 325n44, 348, 531, 561, 562
pictogram 285, 288
pictorial runes 535n29, 545, 553
picture book 49, 72, 85, 366, 367, 438, 553
from Kamigata 340
kusazōshi as 6, 7, 15n58, 549
modern readers of 486, 489, 493, 494
and synoptic narratives 131n28 ehon; ezōshi
picture-search puzzle 289–290, 291
picture-sugoroku . e-sugoroku
Piepoli, Angelo 1
Pillar Print (hashira-kakushi) (anthropomorphized character) 173, 340
pillow word (makura kotoba) 325
play 247n61, 286
and adults 263–264, 281
and children 26, 263, 263n7, 271–272, 280, 281, 291
cognitive labor 275, 275n47
cognitive play 262, 291
game play 267, 278, 280
games 261–264, 266–267
in kusazōshi 33, 261–292
ludic play 286
ludus 34, 286, 292
metaphorical potential of 272, 273, 277, 280
and morality 272
performative play 263, 264
and reading 34, 261, 268–270, 278, 280, 290, 291, 292
with the language 302 ban-sugoroku; chess; e-sugoroku; go; jūroku musashi; metsuke-e; moji-e; shōgi; texts-as-games; wordplay
plaything 33, 291
pleasure quarters 177, 180, 203, 234, 268, 335, 517
books about 160, 340
and fashion 240–241
and language 244, 245
and private performances 159
and ukiyo-e 511 Yoshiwara
postcolonial intervention 36, 523
Postema, Barbara 4
postmodernity 334, 501, 516
prefaces (introductions, jo) 66, 69, 79, 100, 180n78, 202, 286n72, 364, 373, 416
and adaptation 214, 218, 368–370, 383, 437, 438
assessing kusazōshi 233–234, 244
information about author’s biography 413n17
information about composition 101, 246, 263, 320, 360, 362, 383, 450, 459
information about history of kusazōshi 99–100
of yomihon 111
Prince Shōtoku 125–126, 177
printed handwriting 465
printer (hansuri, surishi) 106–108, 582
and block-cutter 103
from Korea 84
part of creative team 12, 111, 516
visual depiction of 89
prototype theory 6
publishers (of kusazōshi) (hanmoto) 90–91, 261
announcements (kōjō) 460n26
authors taking manuscripts to 11, 337, 338
bankruptcy 369
crests of 19, 20, 61, 72, 74, 135
cum-bookseller 11, 301
key publishers 11, 19, 20, 156, 156n23
and metafiction 334, 346, 348, 356
names acknowledged in books 55, 56, 63, 65, 72, 74, 78, 79, 413
part of creative team 12, 14, 23, 89, 95, 98, 111, 136, 516
titles-slip designs 61–62, 62, 63, 119
and ukiyo-e 301
visual depiction of 3, 10, 60, 89 ezōshiya; jihon doiya
pug nose . Enjirō’s nose
puzzle 286, 323, 419, 425 . picture-search puzzle; play; rebus(es); riddle(s)
puzzle instinct 290
puzzling script 281–291 . moji-e
Qianshenlun (On the Numinosity of Cash) 246
Qu You 361, 362, 366, 368, 383, 385
rakugo 245n53, 361, 397, 467, 467n39, 474
readers (of kusazōshi) 397
adults 6, 13, 16, 18, 21, 25, 120, 121, 134, 151, 152, 231, 232, 339, 488, 499, 510, 515, 533, 551, 569
of akahon 120–122, 134, 151
children 7, 14, 18, 76, 111, 113, 120, 121n12, 134, 151, 152, 172, 207, 232, 242, 337, 339, 437, 472, 488, 491, 499, 535, 548
images of 2, 52, 60, 171, 355, 437
kabuki enthusiasts 219, 368
of kibyōshi 6, 25, 231, 232, 339, 499, 551, 569
of kurohon 548
of kurohon-aohon 120
problematizing connection with women and children 14, 113, 118, 121, 151, 370
samurai 13
women 13, 18, 74, 354, 355, 496
women and children 14, 18, 113, 199, 370, 448, 460
reappropriation 17, 280 . adaptation; remediation
rebus(es) 262 . hanjimono
recycled paper 5, 51, 232, 530
registration mark (kentō) 107
Reigen kame yamaboko (Festive Float with a Miraculous Turtle) 407
remediation 516 . adaptation; reappropriation
retrospective reading 6, 7, 334
revenge . katakiuchi-mono
riddle(s) 177, 276–277, 276n51, 286, 292n88
anthologies of 120n8, 264
and play 285
reading akin to riddle-solving 140, 159, 249
riddle-like plot 203, 205, 206, 419
riddle logic 277, 278, 291
visual riddles 262, 277, 278, 286
rigen 310 . idioms
rōnin 379, 486, 489
Rosei . Lusheng
Rosei ga yume sono zenjitsu (Rosei’s Dream: The Day Before) 235, 599
Rōya daisuihen (A Sober Anthology from Langya) 91, 91n15
ruidaisho (thematic collections) . ruisho
ruisho (thematic collections) 94
ryakuga 552
Ryakuga haya oshie (Quick Teachings for Rough Drawings) 288, 289
Ryan, Marie-Laure 8n33, 9n35, 286, 394n79
Ryōgoku no shiori (A Guide to Ryōgoku) 474
Ryokutei Kazan 408
Ryōri chawa sokuseki-banashi (A Quick Story on Food and Tea) 346–348
Ryūkatei Tanekazu 208, 209
Ryūsuitei Tanekiyo 221–222
Ryūtei Senka 96, 199, 460
Ryūtei Tanehiko 27, 72, 75, 87
author of gōkan 202, 205–206, 214–218, 222, 408, 411, 447, 450, 460, 474
and evidential scholarship 124, 465–466
letters 199
and music 461, 468
nineteenth-century translations of 589n1
Sagamiya (publisher) 129
Saiyūki (The Journey to the West) 95, 371
Sakaguchi Ango 501
Sakumotoya Kyūbee (publisher) 271
Sakura butai maku no datezome (The Cherry Blossom Stage, Curtains Dyed in Style) 457
Sakura butai maku no datezome (The Cherry Blossom Stage, Curtains Dyed in Style) (tsuji banzuke) 458
Sakurada Jisuke III 446
Sakuradoki onna gyōretsu (Women’s Procession During the Cherry Blossom Season) 470n46
sakusha . authors (of kusazōshi)
Sakusha tainai totsuki no zu (Ten Months in the Womb of the Author) 88, 348
Salen, Katie 267, 279n54
sales wrapper 53, 55–57, 56, 57, 60, 61, 65n20, 78, 88, 152, 152n13, 178n72 . fukuro-iri; fukuro-zashi
Samidare sōshi (The Tale of the Fifth Month Rain) 178n71
samurai (warrior) 445, 447, 486, 490, 503
as copyist 97
ethics 561
as protagonist 17, 203, 418, 428, 561
as reader 13 gishiden
Sanbuku tsui murasaki Soga (A Scroll of Three, Purple Soga) 159n32
Sanpuku (Three to Make One Scroll) 125n19
Sanshōtei Karaku 207
Santō Kyōden 18, 91, 172, 281, 315n27, 460, 461, 511
and ai-jirisuhi 71, 102
and aohon 152n12
author of kibyōshi 88, 152, 154n19, 182–183, 232, 248, 249, 252, 273, 282n62, 312–313, 314–315, 337, 341–343, 348, 350, 350n30, 351, 459, 469, 472–473, 512, 513, 579
author of gōkan 194, 202n21, 209, 213, 220, 221, 360–398, 408, 409n8, 411, 459
author of yomihon 215, 217, 360, 361, 369, 387
and Hokusai 306, 307, 512
and idioms 312–313, 314–315
as illustrator 152, 153, 232, 315n27, 338n11, 518, 535
kuchi-e (introductory illustrations) 213
and Kyokutei Bakin 275, 275n45, 281
and metafiction 341–343, 348, 350, 350n30, 351, 549
nose 182
payment of 12
tobacco shop 285
and tokusoku (reading guides in gōkan) 102, 194, 194n5, 196, 197, 199
and Utamaro 305
visual depictions of 337, 338
writing about kusazōshi 26, 233, 235 Kitao Masanobu
Santō Kyōzan 60, 100n26, 178n71, 193, 302
San’yūtei Enchō 361, 397
Saru kani gassen (The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab) 133
Saru no ikigimo (The Monkey’s Liver) 133
Sasaki Tōru 16
sashie shōsetsu (illustrated novels) 36, 551 . e-monogatari (picture stories)
satire 532n13
and kibyōshi 11, 25, 26, 28, 87, 247, 314, 515, 530, 561
lack of 248, 291
Sato no Bakamura muda ji zukushi (Bakamura of the Pleasure Quarters and his List of Useless Characters) 282–284
Satō Satoru 11, 16, 28, 126, 193, 222, 263, 264n12, 395, 398, 460n26, 474
Sato suzume negura no kariyado (Village Sparrows: Temporary Shelter in the Nest) 307n16
Satō Yukiko 12, 25, 166, 167n44, 170–172, 362, 390, 396, 461, 474
satsu (physical volume) 51, 53, 53n10, 78, 193, 373, 413 . kan (booklet)
Sawamura Gennosuke I 391, 392
Sawamura Tanosuke II 411
Scott, Carole 131n28
Segawa Jokō II 411
Segawa Jokō III 450, 467
Segawa Kikunojō I 135, 461
Segawa Kikunojō III 303, 351n34, 417
Segawa Kikunojō V 59
Segawa Rokō IV 368, 391
Segawa Sennyo 417 . Segawa Kikunojō III
Seidan (Political Discussions) 243n44
Seigen and Sakura-hime (sekai) 451n16
seihan (xylography) 84 . woodblock printing
Seirō jūni-toki (Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters) 305
seisho (clear version, fair version) 92, 97
Seiyō jijō (Things Western) 499
sekai (storyworld, world) 35, 111, 396, 398, 405, 425, 427, 433, 516, 518
acknowledged sekai 394–395
combination of 417, 426
definition of 94, 394, 409–411
in gōkan 426–435
in kabuki 94, 409–411, 451, 451n16, 516
and naimaze (interweaving) 395
twenty-first century Japan 435–436, 439 sekai-shukō dyad; shukō; storyworld
Sekai kōmoku (The Handbook of Theatrical Worlds) 94, 394–395, 410
sekai-shukō dyad 35, 394, 405, 436, 516 . sekai; shukō
Sekine Masanao 86–87
sekkyōbushi 93n19
self-reflexivity 516, 517, 518–519 . metafiction
Senbon Zaemon (The Story of Senbon Zaemon) 140
Sendaihagi (sekai) 451n16
senga (black-and-white line drawing) 532
Senjutsu hitori geiko (How to Become a Taoist Immortal) 599
senryū (poetry) 517
Senshinron (On the Numinosity of Cash) . Qianshenlun
Sentō shinwa . Jiandeng xinhua
Sentō shinwa kukai (Annotated New Tales Told While Trimming the Lamps) 384
sequentiality 514, 520, 548
feature of comic books/comics 4, 508, 509, 510, 522, 523, 532
and kusazōshi 4, 9, 513
and manga 541, 542
serifu 172n52 . iibun; kakiire
Setsuyō kikan (Rare Sights in Osaka) 406n3
setsuyōtai 177
Shaka hassō Yamato bunko (Eight Faces of Buddha, a Yamato Library) 496, 496n26
Sharaku 303
share 26, 341–343, 344, 345 . jiguchi; wordplay
sharebon (books of wit and fashion) 12, 87n7, 152, 164, 232, 394, 472, 473, 474
and kibyōshi 87, 340
and language 244, 245
Shiau Han-Chen 362–363, 366n18, 367n21, 369n26, 382n45
Shibai setsuyōshū (A Theater Dictionary) 462–463
Shiba Zenkō 156, 158, 170n49, 272, 335, 343
Shibori Somegorō gōsei-banashi (The Story of Shibori Somegorō’s Great Vigor) 213, 214
Shichimai-tsuzuki hana no sugata-e (Elegant Portraits in Seven Consecutive Prints) 469
Shigure no sarumino (Monkey’s Raincoat in the First Fall Shower) 408
Shikitei Sanba 13, 511
author of gōkan 88, 200, 220, 348, 408, 438
author of kibyōshi 10, 62, 233
author of kokkeibon (comic fiction) 76, 473
cosmetic shop 12
depiction of 3
on kusazōshi 110–111
on mise en page of gōkan 197, 199
and publisher Nishinomiya Shinroku 10–11
Shikitei Sanba unubore kagami (The Mirror of Shikitei Sanba’s Ego) 2–3, 10–14, 18n70
Shikitei Toranosuke 408
Shimada Keizō 553
Shima Sanjin 72
Shimazaki, Satoko 392
Shimizu Enjū 305
Shimizu Isao 7n23, 532, 532n13
Shimizu Masao 387
Shinbeisai Gyokuryū 457
shinbō tachiyaku kyōgen 411
Shin Chikusai (The New Chikusai) 285
Shingaku hayasome-gusa (Fast-Dyeing Mind Study) 252, 282n62, 469, 572, 599
Shin kufū metsuke-e (Newly Devised “Guess the Picture”) 263
shin’naibushi (songs) 459
Shinoda-zuma (The Wife of Shinoda) 92–94, 93n19
Shinpan Jinkōki (Calculation: Revised Edition) 512
Shinpan kawarimashita dōchū Sukeroku (A Newly Published and Re-fashioned Sukeroku En Route on a Picture-Sugoroku) 273–274
Shinpan kawarimashita jūroku Musashibō (A Newly Published and Re-fashioned Jūroku Musashi) 270–281, 288, 291–292
shinpan mokuroku (back matter) 74, 79
Shinpan: Monogusa Tarō (Lazy Tarō) 534, 534n25, 535–541, 548, 551, 574–575, 591
Shinpan: Murasaki Shikibu (Murasaki Shikibu, Newly published) 574–575, 591
Shinpan omocha-zukushi (New Edition: Pictorial List of Toys) 271–272
Shinrotei 408, 413, 417, 428, 429, 435
Shin Takarajima (The New Treasure Island) 543
Shinzō setsuyōshū (New and Enlarged Dictionary) 243 . Hayabiki setsuyōshū
Shio-uri Bunta monogatari (The Tale of Bunta the Salt-Seller) 119
Shirai Gonpachi and Komurasaki (sekai) 451n16
Shiranui monogatari (The Tale of Shiranui) 54, 61, 104, 105, 208, 209–212, 222, 490, 496
Shiranui monogatari (The Tale of Shiranui) (corrected manuscript) 105
Shishido Sakō 542
Shitakire suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow) (akahon) 133, 135–136, 137, 138, 139
Shitakire suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow) (folklore) 17–18, 121, 306
Shitakiri suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow) (folklore) . Shitakire suzume (folklore)
Shitakiri suzume (The Tongue-Cut Sparrow) (unpublished gōkan) 438
shitatoji (inner binding) 50, 51n4
shōgi (board game) 271, 279, 281
Shōhonjitate (A Kabuki Prompt Book) 72, 86, 87, 411, 471n48
analysis of 459–462
modern reader 447, 448
popularity of 450
recut version 460n26, 468, 469, 471
script 465
shōhon utsushi(kabuki digests, theater digests) 30, 411n14, 446, 449, 450
shoki kusazōshi . early kusazōshi
shomei . closing signatures
shomotsu doiya (type of publisher) 72, 472
Shōne (Shōne) 129
Shōnen Kurabu 553
Shōnen sekai 552
Shōsetsu shikō (The History of the Novel) 86–87
Shōsetsu shinzui (The Essence of the Novel) 200
Shōtei Kinsui (copyist) 98
Shui hu zhuan (The Water Margin) 95
shukō (device) 337
shukō (fresh twist) 35, 373, 396, 417, 518
definition of 94, 393–394, 410–411
in gōkan 426–435
in kabuki 94, 410–411
and naimaze (interweaving) 395 naimaze; sekai; sekai-shukō dyad
Shunkōsai Hokushū 416
sleeve marks . sode-jirushi
Smith, Christopher 69n25, 270
sode-jirushi (sleeve marks) 69, 136–140, 142, 208, 264 . natsubo
Soga brothers 125, 141
Soga gonichi: Jūjō Genji Monogusa Tarō 239n29 . Jūjō Genji
Soga monogatari (The Tale of the Soga Brothers) 416
Sogitsugi gingiseru (The Unseamly Silverpiped Swingers) 579, 600
song(s) 406, 470, 517
in akahon 121, 127, 141
in gōkan 457, 461, 468, 473
in kibyōshi 239, 240, 353 kayō
Sono henpō bakemono-banashi (A Monster’s Story in Retaliation) 303
Sō no Kai 28
Sono sakazuki iro no mitsugumi (Those Saké Cups: A Colorful Set of Three) 407
Sono yukari hina no omokage (That Bond: The Shape of the Countryside) 435, 435n34
Sorekara iraiki (Records of What Comes After) 247n61
sōshi 5, 10n38, 266, 568
sōshiya . ezōshiya
Soshoku . Sū Shì
Speed Tarō 542–543
Spiegelman, Art 510, 518
Stein, Daniel 8, 512, 530
story-manga 36, 530, 531, 539, 543, 553, 554
storyworld 34, 35, 394n79, 405, 405n2, 409, 427, 435, 438, 516, 518
Sugiura Hinako 16–17
Sugoroku hitori-geiko (Teach Yourself Sugoroku) 279–280, 279n55
Suien 234, 261 . Hachiya Mokitsu
Suikoden (The Water Margin) 95 . Shui hu zhuan
Suits, Bernard 286
Sukeroku (character) 274
Sukeroku (sekai) 451n16
Suketakaya Takasuke II 391
Sukikaeshi (Recycled Paper) . Kankon shiryō
surimono 321–323, 325, 326
surishi . printer
suritsuke-byōshi (multicolor covers) . covers
surtitle (tsunogaki) 60, 62, 94, 179, 266, 366, 367, 368, 438
Sū Shì 159n32
sutairu-ga 545
Suzuki Jūzō 28, 29, 131, 208, 209, 213, 362, 390–391, 449–450
Suzuki Keiichi 87n7
Suzuki Kumi 179
Suzuki Toshiyuki 152, 446, 471, 488–490, 491–492, 499
Suzume (writer) 263
suzume odori (sparrow dance) 135, 306, 307n16
Tachikawa Kiyoshi 362, 383
Tadaima no o-waraigusa (Jokes for Right Now) 428–429
Tadatoru yama no hototogisu (Cuckoo of Mt. Gratis) 127n25, 590
Tadaya Rihee 474
Tagawa Suihō 542
Taiheiki (The Chronicle of the Great Peace) 177
Taiheiki manpachi kōshaku (Bogus Lectures on the Chronicle of the Great Peace) 244
Taira (clan) 271
Taira no Masakado 343n20
Takagi Gen 28, 487n5
Takagi Oriemon budō jitsuroku (The True Account of the Military Tale of Takagi Oriemon) 445–446
Takahashi Noriko 30, 306n14
Takahashi Oden yasha monogatari (Takahashi Oden, Devil Woman) 579, 602–603
Takai Ranzan 102
Takarabune kogane no hobashira (Golden Mast of the Treasure Ship) 88–108, 195n7, 516
Takara no metsuke-e (Treasures, “Guess the Picture”) 264
Takeda Izumo II 93n19
Takehara Shunchōsai 514
Takemoto-za Theater 352n36
Taketori monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) 60
Takeuchi Magohachi (publisher) 409
Takino Otonari 97
Tamagawa-za Theater 457
Tama migaku aoto ga zeni 600
Tamenaga Shunsui 409n9
Tamenaga Shunsui II 96
Tanabata tsume negai no itotake 99, 100
Tanahashi Masahiro 29, 177, 281, 288, 289, 512
Tanba tete uchi-guri (The Old Man from Tanba Hit with a Chestnut Branch) 16, 77
Tanbaya Otsuma 405–439
tanehon . draft manuscript
Tanomi ari bakemono no majiwari (Monsters to the Rescue) 600
tanpen gōkan (short gōkan) 27, 35, 53, 78, 413 . chōhen gōkan; gōkan
Tanuma (administration) 237, 237n23, 246, 246n57
Tanuma Okitsugu 236, 237n21, 247, 275
Tarō Kaja 339
Tatsumi no sono (The Southeast Garden) 244
tawamure-goto (divertissement) 26
Tawara Tōda Hidesato 343, 343n20
Tawara Tōda monogatari (The Tale of Tawara Tōda) 343n20
te-asobi (game, toy pictures) 263, 493, 494, 495 . omocha-e
tengu 307–308
Tenjiku Tokubee (character) 371–372, 376, 380, 381, 386, 391
Tenjiku Tokubee (sekai) 395, 395n83
Tenkei wakumon (Some Questions about Astronomy) Tianjing huowen
Tenkei wakumon (Words and Phrases in Harmony in the Celebrated Heaven) (kibyōshi) 312–313
Tenpō Reforms 447, 448n6
Tentei 342, 343, 344
Terako tanka ([Iroha characters] Verses for Schoolchildren) 591
Teren itsuwari nashi (The Art of Coaxing Without Lies) 180, 181
Tetsu (Tetsu) 129
texts-as-games 286
Tezuka Osamu 532, 543
theater . jōruri; kabuki (theater)
Thon, Jan-Noël 8, 512
Tianjing huowen (Some Questions about Astronomy) 312n21
title slip (daisen) 1, 13, 58, 61–63, 76, 78, 107, 119, 502
in aohon 18
in gōkan 59
in kibyōshi 62
in later impressions/editions 107, 233
and play 263
as sites for bibliographic information 79, 338n11, 438 e-daisen
toba-e 306, 310, 320
Toba Sōjō 168n45
Tōchūken Kumoemon 486, 487n4, 489
Tofu Boy 517
Tōhekidō (publisher) 66n21 . Eirakuya Tōshirō
Toita Yasuji 474–475
Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (Eastern Seaboard Highway, Ghost Stories at Yotsuya) 450
Tokitarō Kakō 315, 512 . Hokusai
Tokubee (copyist) 111
Tokugawa Munetake 234, 261
tokusoku (reading guides in gōkan) 102, 194, 194n5, 196, 197, 199 . ai-jirushi
Tōkyō inshō ki (Impressions of Tokyo) 493
Tomikawa Fusanobu 153, 235, 338 . Tomikawa Ginsetsu
Tomikawa Ginsetsu 156, 156n25, 179n76, 438
author 235n14
dream motif 235, 338
key illustrator of early kusazōshi 153
and Kinpira jōruri 158
tomikuji . lotteries
Tomimoto (music/song) 353, 474
Tonami Kansuke 514
Tōrai Sanna 247, 252
Torii Fumiko 158n27
Torii Kiyomitsu 131, 153
Torii Kiyonaga 153, 156, 158, 273
Torii Kiyotsune 153, 156n24, 159, 176
Torii School 17, 18, 139, 153, 156
Tōrimasu Ataka no seki (Going Through the Ataka Barrier) 275
Tōri Sanjin 88, 91, 516 . Hana Sanjin
Tōsei fūzoku tsū (Today’s Fashionable Chic) 160, 239
tōsei tōsei 231–232
Tōsei-zome kabuki no hinagata (A Kabuki Design Book: Fabrics Dyed in the Modern Style) 453–455, 456, 457, 457n20
Tōshisen (as anthropomorphized character) 472
Totto mohaya erai sakae (An Exceptional Success) 245
Toyotake-za Theater 140, 239n29
Toyotomi Hideyoshi 84
translations (of kusazōshi) 560–586, 589–603
bibliographic translation 566–567, 568, 580, 584
chapbook method 570
comics method 580–584, 581
dubbed format 539n36, 579–580
as interpretation 560, 561, 585, 586
narrative picture scroll method 577, 578
and notes 37
playscript method 172n54, 571–574
Translation Studies 506
Transnational Studies 506
tsū (sophistication) 28, 232, 244 . share
Tsubouchi Shōyō 113, 200
Tsuchinoto-hitsuji bijin-awase no uchi (Beauties of the Year of the Sheep Compared) 321
Tsuchiyama Sōjirō 249, 353
Tsuda Mayumi 28
Tsūfū Ise monogatari (A modern Ise) 600
tsūgen (type of language) 244
tsuji banzuke (poster-sized street playbill) 367, 368, 390, 457, 458
Tsuji ga hana urami no samezaya (Flower at the Crossroads: Sharkskin Scabbard of Ill Will) 407
Tsumagasane Naniwa no hachimonji (Overlapping Wives in Ōsaka: the Courtesan’s Walk) 406, 435
Tsumoru koi yuki no seki no to (Accumulating Love, Barrier Gate in the Snow) 492n18
tsunogaki . surtitle
Tsurezure suigakawa (The River of Connoisseurship in Idleness) 245
Tsurukichi (magician) 429, 429n29
Tsuruya Kiemon (publisher) 11, 222, 270, 272, 273, 281, 354, 408, 413, 473
Tsuruya Kinsuke (publisher) 470
Tsuruya Magotarō 457, 457n21
Tsuruya Nanboku IV 360, 361, 364, 368, 369, 383, 450, 457–458
Tsutamoyō chizome no goshuin (The Ivy-Patterned Bloodstained Seal) 446n3
Tsutaya Jūzaburō (publisher) 11, 12, 233, 408, 473, 474
Tsutaya Kichizō (publisher) 408
tsuyadashi (burnishing) 57, 60, 67
tsuyazumi (burnishing) 107 . tsuyadashi
Uba Jōsuke 450 . Tsuruya Nanboku IV
Uchigasaki Yuriko 437
Uda Toshihiko 151n10, 233n9, 241–242, 242n41
Ude no horimono isshin inochi (The Tattooed Arm: A Story of Dedication) 602
Ueda Akinari 361
Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) 361
ukare no chō (magical trick) 429
Ukibotan zenden (Complete Account of the Floating Peony) 360, 361, 363, 395
advertisement for 387
commercial flop 369, 389
genealogy of The Peony Lantern 368, 383
gōkanification of 362
plot of 375–378
reuse of design from 387, 388–389 Kabuki no hana botan-dōrō
Ukiyoburo (Bath House of the Floating World) 76
Ukiyodoko (The Barbershop of the Floating World) 245
ukiyo-e 34, 124, 326, 416, 473, 511, 517
and gōkan 222, 390, 435, 460n26
images of readers in 13, 76
and kibyōshi 303–305, 325
and kusazōshi 222, 301–326, 446, 471, 472, 513, 541
and kusazōshi covers 59
ukiyo-e shops 492 giga; nishiki-e
illustrators (of kusazōshi)
Ukiyo-gata rokumai byōbu 589n1
Ukiyo Genji-e 60
Ukiyo Matahee 215
Ukiyo Rakusuke: Ippai no yume (A Man of Pleasure in the Floating World: A Drink and a Dream) 235, 338–339, 571, 591–592
ukiyozōshi (tales from the floating world) 86, 151n10, 340, 428, 433
Unagidani kabuki no sujigaki (Unagidani: A Theatrical Synopsis) 405–439
ura-mikaeshi (inside back cover) . covers
Urashima Tarō (The Tale of Urashima Tarō) (folklore/character) 17, 343, 343n20
Urokogataya (Urokogataya Magobee, publisher)
and akahon 127, 129, 131, 135–136, 139, 140
and aohon 77
crisis 243
key kusazōshi publisher 11, 18, 156
publisher of first kibyōshi 16, 120–121, 159, 231, 233, 234, 242n41, 243–244
title slips 119
Urokogataya Magobee (publisher) . Urokogataya
Usagi no ōtegara (A Rabbit’s Great Exploits) 133
Usagi no tegara (A Rabbit’s Exploits) (folklore) 18 . Kachikachi yama (The Crackling Mountain) (folklore)
uselessness 344, 345, 498, 500 . muda
Ushi no koku (The Hour of the Ox) . Seirō jūni-toki
Ushiro himo (A Kimono Sash for Children) 264
Ushiwakamaru 158n27 . Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Uso kara deta makoto-zōshi (A Book of Truth that Comes out of Falsehood) 314–315
Uso shikkari gantori chō (A Fake Ledger Full of Lies) 303–305
usumono shōhon (thin script of musical text) 461
Usu omokage maboroshi nikki 57
usuzumi (printed shades of grey) 66, 67
Utagaruta [no] hajimari (The Fashionable Ise: The Origins of Utagaruta) 592
Utagawa Kunimasa 13, 264n12
Utagawa Kuninobu 72
Utagawa Kunisada 72, 75, 96, 360, 361, 387, 408, 409, 511
and actor prints 457, 460
and covers 59, 61
reputation of 61n14, 76
and Ryūtei Tanehiko 27
signing as Toyokuni 57, 60
vs. Utagawa Kuniyoshi 96
Utagawa Kunisada II 57, 61
Utagawa Kuniyasu 59
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 96, 282, 306, 306n14, 307, 307n16
Utagawa School 96
Utagawa Toyohiro 360, 361, 369
Utagawa Toyokuni 10, 13, 72, 73, 76, 154, 302, 390
Utagawa Toyokuni III 57, 60, 61, 96 . Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Yoshiiku 61
Utagawa Yoshimaru 408, 413
Utagawa Yoshiume 320
utazaimon (song) 406
utsushi gōkan . digests
vendetta . katakiuchi
Venuti, Lawrence 511
visual flow 36, 534, 537, 542, 551, 553, 554
visual punning 302, 320–325, 325n44
Wada kassen onna maizuru (The Wada Battle: Woman with a Crane Motif) 407
waka (poetry) 93, 173
Wakan sansai zue (An Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia of the Three Realms) 94
Wakasaya Yoichi 307n16
Wall, Barbara 371
Walley, Glynne 5n8, 6–7, 7n23, 16, 24, 172n54, 282n63, 292n88
Warabeuta myōmyō-guruma (A Child’s Song: A Wheel of Wonders) 490, 490n11
Watanabe Kenji 459
Watanabe Kyōji 150
Watanabe Masako 131n28
whale 349
Williams, Kristin Holly 27
women 350n30
authors (of kusazōshi) 12
and children 14, 18, 113, 199, 370, 448, 460
and foxes 91
letter writing 288, 496
and manga 1n2
and music 461 readers (of kusazōshi)
woodblock printing (xylography) 84
of covers 65
key scholarship on 88
losing ground 491
opportunities unlocked by 77, 463–467
printing process 95n22, 103–104, 106, 107
print-run 14
wordplay 356, 537, 561, 562
examples of 169nn47–48, 170n49, 174n58, 177, 282
and humor 170
key ingredient of kibyōshi 26, 172
share as 341 jiguchi
wrapper . sales wrapper
Xiyouji (The Journey to the West) . Saiyūki
Yabatai no shi kokuji shō (Excerpts from the Poem of Yabatai in Japanese) 102
Yabureta koromo (The Torn Clothing) 129
Yaegasumi kashiku no adauchi (A Yours Truly Revenge Enveloped in a Thick Mist) 102, 194n5
yagō (shop name of publisher) 72, 74
Yakusha gakuya tsū (The Connoisseur of the Actors’ Backstage) 13
Yakusha sangai kyō (Fuss About the Actor’s Third Floor) 13
Yamaguchi Takeshi 175
Yamamoto (publisher) 135–136, 140
Yamamoto Harufumi 273
Yamamoto Shigeharu 140
Yamamotoya Heikichi (publisher) 457n20
Yanagawa Icchōsai 429
Yanagida kaku no shin 245n53
Yarō yakusha (Adult Male Actors) 262n4
Yayoi no hana Asakusa matsuri (Flowers of the Third Month, Asakusa Festival) 469–470
Yellow Kid 507
yomihon (reading books) 86, 361, 394, 474, 502
and Chinese vernacular novels 213, 562
covers of 51
definition of 51n4, 490n10
differences with kusazōshi 383
gōkan turned into 570, 572
as haishi shōsetsu 87
higher prices of 110–111
and Hokusai 309
inspiration for gōkan 95, 214, 215, 217, 387, 388, 389, 405
and kuchi-e (introductory illustrations) 66, 213
and modern readers 490, 495
readers of 113
recording copyists’ names 97
and Santō Kyōden 215, 217, 360, 361, 369, 387
and ukiyo-e artists 326
and the Western novel 567
yomihonization of the gōkan 567, 570, 572
Yomo no Magao 321
Yōnen jidai (Childhood) 485–491
Yo no naka shareken no ezu (Illustrated Guide to Contemporary Comedy) 341–344
yose (playhouse) 467
yose-e (assembled pictures) 289n86
Yoshida Nobuyuki 467
Yoshiwara 159, 160, 177, 180, 240, 245, 335, 340, 472, 473 . pleasure quarters
Yoshiwara manjū (Yoshiwara Dumplings) 159–160, 165
yōsho . copyist
Yotsubashi Maiden Murder (Yotsubashi musume koroshi) 406
Yuan Zhen 92n17
Yūgiri and Izaemon (sekai) 451n16
Yun Ch’unnyŏn 384
Zen no tsutome (kabuki music) 451
Zhenzhong ji (Record within a Pillow) 235
Zimmerman, Eric 267, 279n54
zōgan . iregi
zōhan mokuroku (publisher’s catalogue) 74, 119
Zōho Fujimi Saigyō (Expanded: Saigyō Gazing at Mt. Fuji) 407
Zolbrod, Leon 5–6, 25, 563–570, 572, 575, 577, 579, 580
Zuangzi (Master Zhuang) 313
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