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Institutionalizing Saikaku: Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization

Institutionalizing Saikaku: Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization. Molly Des Jardin University of Michigan. Kōtei Saikaku zenshū, 1894 (Hakubunkan). Saikaku chronology. mid-1880s: “discovery,” collection, social circulation

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Institutionalizing Saikaku: Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization

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  1. Institutionalizing Saikaku:Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization Molly Des Jardin University of Michigan

  2. Kōtei Saikaku zenshū, 1894 (Hakubunkan)

  3. Saikaku chronology • mid-1880s: “discovery,” collection, social circulation • late 1880s-early 1890s: reprinting (typeset circulation), adaptation, promotion, early criticism • 1894: publication of Kōtei Saikaku zenshū in Teikoku bunko by Hakubunkan (large-scale commercial circulation)

  4. Shōbungaku

  5. Shōnen’en

  6. 愛鶴軒 ai kaku ken (Awashima Kangetsu) Bunko

  7. Awashima Kangetsu as Aikaku-ken Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa as Otowa-an Shōbungaku

  8. archival provenance Chain of custody leading back to the purported origin of an object Proof of authenticity and legitimacy

  9. Ozaki Kōyō Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa “Ihara Saikaku,” Saikaku zenshū

  10. “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū

  11. Genroku Taiheiki “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū

  12. Takizawa Bakin “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū

  13. Sources (including Genroku 5 catalog) from which Saikaku’s “complete works” were deduced Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū

  14. Edition (publication date) Owner of source text “Kōshoku go’nin onna,” Saikaku zenshū

  15. “Furoku,” Saikaku zenshū

  16. Genroku taiheiki Edition (publication date) Genroku Taiheiki, Saikaku zenshū

  17. “social provenance” • Genealogy • Synchronic Embedded in a constructed “present” moment as living endpoint in an intellectual / social chain of custody Mutual authenticity and legitimacy

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