Historically, a specific group of late-Edo period Japanese writers whose work reflected a playful style, a joking and perhaps cynical voice, and disaffection with conventional norms, came to be called Gesaku.[ref][/ref Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis) `Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870-88 (review)`, The Journal o.....
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(from the article `Kanagaki Robun`) Robun began as an apprentice shop boy but became a disciple of Hanagasa Bunky, a writer in the gesaku tradition (writing intended for the ... A great variety of fiction was produced during the last century of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it is commonly lumped together under the somewhat ... [2 relat...
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