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INDEX 509 Shikitei Sanba, 77, 349–350, 364–366; as bestseller writer, 66; commoners ’ speech, 22, 34; as Edokko, 20; In the World of Men, Nothing But Lies, 34, 351–363; preface by, 66– 68; side business of, 25, 361, 370; Spurious History of Comicbooks, 126; The Floating World Barbershop , 20, 34, 366–377; Thunderbolt Boy and His Evil Deeds, 32 Sōgi, 264 Suzuki Harunobu, 10, 11 Tachibana Akemi, 410, 419, 421, 424, 426, 428, 430 Tadano Makuzu, 377–379; Tales from the North, 22, 36, 379–388 Takai Kitō, 36, 400–402; The “Peony Petals” Sequence, 36, 402–413 Takarai Kikaku, 357, 399 Takeda Izumo II, 15, 110 Takemoto Gidayū I, 38 Tamenaga Shunsui, 76–78; collaboration with, 12, 67, 274, 282; female Edokko in, 21; Intimations of Spring: The Plum Calendar, 14, 17, 21, 33, 79–99; readers of, 29 Tayasu Munetake, 417 Terakado Seiken, 14, 36, 480–482; An Account of the Prosperity of Edo, 20, 27, 36, 482–491; punishment of, 27 Tōshūsai Sharaku, 27 Tsubouchi Shōyō, 262 Tsuruya Nanboku IV, 168–170, 219–221; bad girls and gorgeous rogues in, 23; dark world of, 301; as Edo-esque playwright, 38; Epic Yotsuya Ghost Tale, 23, 38, 170–182; Osome and Hisamatsu: Their Amorous History—Read All about It, 23, 38, 221–246 Tsutaya Jūsaburō, 14, 25, 26, 185, 189 Ueda Akinari, 416, 421 Umebori Kokuga, 65–67; At a Fork on the Road to Hiring a Hooker, 33, 67–76 Utagawa Kuninao, 282, 284, 293, 349– 350, 364, 367, 370, 374; Eight Footloose Fools: A Flower Almanac, 284– 301; In the World of Men, Nothing But Lies, 351–363; The Floating World Barbershop, 366–377 Utagawa Kunisada I, 25, 32 Utagawa Toyokuni, 25 Utei Enba, 34, 198 Yamaoka Matsuake, 14, 33, 45–47; Seki the Night Hawk, 47–60 Yosa (Yoza) Buson, 36, 400–402; The “Peony Petals” Sequence, 36, 402–413 SUBJECT INDEX Akasaka, 264 Amida Buddha (Amida Butsu), 118, 120, 210, 215, 268, 283, 360, 407 Analects, The, 216, 377, 408 Asakusa, 13, 204, 265, 353, 485; Enma Hall at, 111, 356; entertainments at, 70, 103, 119, 393; Kannon Temple at, 83, 85, 112, 208, 479 Asuka, 17, 285, 288, 295, 298, 300 Azabu, 273, 279 badger (tanuki) in folklore, 144, 148, 156, 283, 380, 483 Benkei, 361–363, 479 Bishamon (Vaisravana), 67, 75 black books (kurohon), 30, 31 blue books (aohon), 30, 31 bonito, first arrival of (hatsugatsuo), 445, 452, 456 books of manners (sharebon): authors of, 185; conventions of, 365, 467, 474; decline of, 349; dialogues in, 510 INDEX 34; of the late Edo period, 29, 65; prohibition of, 35, 247; readers of, 29; satire in, 20, 45, 366; and sentimental books, 33; sizes of, 32–33 buckwheat noodles (soba), 56, 231, 457, 482, 489 Buddhism: deities of, 67, 112; faith in, 111, 112, 286; images, 462; implications of, 125; nuns, 10; as object of attack, 34; pilgrims, 283; popular varieties of, 7, 75, 344; pretension to, 112, 133; priests in disguise, 12; priests/monks, 103, 115, 331; principles of, 111, 125, 256, 261, 262, 266, 268, 393; temples/shrines, 265, 407, 410 Bungo-bushi, 117, 346, 394 Bunka-Bunsei Eras, 19, 21, 23, 168 bushidō (Way of the Samurai), 5 censorship, 3, 25–27, 65, 247 cherry blossoms, 17, 190, 285, 298, 317, 413, 423, 429, 434 Chinese-Japanese mixed style, 400 city magistrate, 5, 26, 103, 108–109, 237, 239, 454, 462 classical Chinese, 21, 32, 34, 35, 37, 115, 248, 249; poetry in (kanshi), 466, 467, 470 classical Japanese, 21, 24, 283 combined volumes (gōkan), 32, 34, 138, 262 Confucianism/Confucian: didacticism, 35; hierarchy, 46; ideology/ thought, 3, 5, 8, 9, 46, 78, 247– 249, 393; masculinity, 249; moral severity of, 25, 247; pretension of, 377, 483; scholar, 115, 121, 332, 341, 366, 367, 392, 483, 484; studies , 7, 8, 24, 26, 27, 37, 111–113, 366, 466, 480; virtues, 261, 262, 392 courtesans: child attendants (kamuro) of, 4, 13, 46, 468; creativity of, 13, 29, 467; devotion of, 469–470; double suicide with, 210–211, 216–217, 439; Edokko type among, 21; finances of, 46, 47, 128; grand dames (oiran), 13, 20, 21, 198, 200, 201, 202, 213; marrying , 186, 187, 437; as model of sophistication, 32, 33, 350; models for, 54; oshoku (honorable profession ), 83; parade of, 469, 475; and pine tree, 474; ransoming, 213; regular patron of, 201; reviews of, 25; sad end of, 6, 55, 57, 59, 468...

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