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This book uses the haikai verse and paintings of the brilliant, innovative artist Yosa Buson (1716-1783) as a focal point from which to explore how Japanese writers competed for artistic authority in a time when popular responses to economic, technological, and social changes were creating the beginnings of a modern literature. The first part of the book discusses Buson's role in the Bashō Revival movement, situating his haikai in the context of the social networks that writers of his time both relied on and resisted. The second part explores Buson's hokku , linked verse, and haiga (haikai painting). The book concludes with a discussion of Buson's reception in the modern period, and includes translations of his principal works.

J5730 --- J5500.60 --- J2284.60 --- Japan: Literature -- poetry -- haiku, haikai --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Haikai --- Japanese poetry --- History and criticism --- Matsuo, Bashō, --- Yosa, Buson, --- Taniguchi, Chōkō, --- Buson, --- Sha, Shunsai, --- Taniguchi, Buson, --- Buson, Yosa, --- 与謝無村, --- 与謝蕉村, --- 与謝蕪材, --- 与謝蕪村, --- 与谢蕪村, --- 與謝無村, --- 與謝蕪村, --- 谷口蕪村, --- Matsuo, Munefusa, --- Bashō, --- Bashō-ō, --- Tōsei, --- Hakusendō, --- Tentenken, --- Katōten, --- Katōen, --- Hōbi, --- Yōkaku, --- Bashōan Tōsei, --- Mat︠s︡uo, Basë, --- Bashō, Matsuo, --- Matsuo, Basyo, --- Basyo, --- Matsuo, Kinsaku, --- Басë, Мацуо, --- בשו --- 与谢芭蕉, --- 松尾笆蕉, --- 松尾芭焦, --- 松尾芭蕉, --- 松尾芭蕪, --- 松尾蕉, --- 芭蕉, --- 麻生磯次, --- Matsuo, Bashō --- Bashō, Matsuo --- History and criticism. --- Matsuo, Bashō, --- Taniguchi, Chōkō --- Sha, Shunsai --- Buson, Yosa --- Buson --- Taniguchi, Buson --- 与謝無村 --- 与謝蕉村 --- 与謝蕪材 --- 与謝蕪村 --- 与谢蕪村 --- 與謝無村 --- 與謝蕪村 --- 谷口蕪村 --- 松尾, 芭蕉 --- Matsuo, Basho, --- Yosa, Buson

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This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois culture first emerged in Japan, telling the story of the rising commoner arts of Kamigata, or the "Upper Regions" of Kyoto and Osaka, which harkened back to Japan's middle ages even as they rebelled against and competed with that earlier era. Both cities prided themselves on being models and trendsetters in all cultural matters, whether arts, crafts, books, or food. The volume also shows how elements of popular arts that germinated during this period ripened into the full-blown consumer culture of the late-Edo period. The tendency to imagine Japan's modernity as a creation of Western influence since the mid-nineteenth century is still strong, particularly outside Japan studies. A Kamigata Anthology challenges such assumptions by illustrating the flourishing phenomenon of Japan's movement into its own modernity through a selection of the best examples from the period, including popular genres such as haikai poetry, handmade picture scrolls, travel guidebooks, kabuki and joruri plays, prose narratives of contemporary life, and jokes told by professional entertainers. Well illustrated with prints from popular books of the time and hand scrolls and standing screens containing poems and commentaries, the entertaining and vibrant translations put a spotlight on texts currently unavailable in English.