tales, kanazōshi tended to be more realistic, with fewer supernatural or fantastic elements. Whether meant to entertain or inform, kanazōshi narratives...

of a Kyoto temple, he is held to be one of the finest writers of Kanazōshi. Kanazōshi was a form of popular literature that was written with little or...

able to read kanji. This resulted in a classification of books called kanazōshi, books printed with both kanji and kana. Booksellers' catalogues, such...

1593. It was soon followed by a fuller translation into a three-volume kanazōshi entitled Isopo Monogatari (伊曾保 物語). This was the sole Western work to...

printing. Woodblock imagery continued to evolve as illustrations to the kanazōshi genre of tales of hedonistic urban life in the new capital. The rebuilding...

during the Great Fire of Meireki as depicted in Musashiabumi (むさしあぶみ), a kanazōshi (仮名草子) by Asai Ryōi (浅井 了意). Officials mistook released ex-convicts for...

Hideyoshi, and later in the employ of Tokugawa Ieyasu. An early exemplar of kanazōshi or 'booklets in the vernacular', it was printed with wooden movable type...

the external title Shinchō Ki, but to avoid confusion with Oze Hoan's Kanazōshi of the same title, which is described below, the chronicle is generally...

This style itself developed from its less sophisticated predecessor, kanazōshi, which depicted realism. Ukiyo-e illustrations emitted romantic and sensual...

copyright concerns". Shiken Research Bulletin. 16. Moretti, L (2010). "Kanazōshi Revisited: The Beginnings of Japanese Popular Literature in Print". Monumenta...