Kanagaki Robun

Kanagaki Robun

▪ Japanese author
original name  Nozaki Bunzō 
born Jan. 6, 1829, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan
died Oct. 8, 1894, Tokyo

      Japanese writer of humorous fiction who brought a traditional satirical art to bear on the peculiarities of Japanese society in the process of modernization.

      Robun began as an apprentice shop boy but became a disciple of Hanagasa Bunkyō, a writer in the gesaku tradition (writing intended for the entertainment of the merchant and working classes of Edo). Eventually Robun was recognized as a leading gesaku writer, noted for such works as Kokkei Fuji mōde (1860–61; “A Comic Mount Fuji Pilgrimage”), a satire of popular works on pilgrimages to famous places, and Aguranabe (1871; “The Beefeater”; extracts appear in Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1956).

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