Tsuga Teishō, Takebe Ayatari, and Okajima Kanzan were instrumental in developing the yomihon. Another early pioneer of the yomihon, Ueda Akinari initiated the modern tradition of weird fiction in Japan with his Ugetsu Monogatari and Harusame Monogatari. Kyokutei Bakin wrote the extremely popular fantasy/historical romance Nansō Satomi Hakkenden,...
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a subgenre of gesaku, a type of popular Japanese literature of the Tokugawa, or Edo, period (1603–1867). Yomihon were distinguished from books, ... [3 related articles]
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