Gesaku is a genre or loose school of Japanese literature covering any popular prose work written in a playful, mocking, joking or frivolous spirit rather than in pursuit of refined literary beauty or perfect form. Gesaku writers depended on book sales for their living and wrote for as wide a public as possible, following a successful title with as many sequels as readers would support.
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Subgenres
Source Dangibon (Wikipedia)
Source Ninjobon - Wikipedia
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Sources
1. Gesaku - Wikipedia
Historical Context
invented in the mid-eighteenth century
Key Characteristics
Tokaidochu Hizakurige by Jippensha Ikku
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Gesaku (戯作) is an alternative style, genre, or school of Japanese literature.
View the SourceDangibon (Wikipedia)
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It is type of gesaku
Ninjobon - Wikipedia
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Founded and developed in the early nineteenth century, this style of books derived from the early sharebon and kokkeibon genres and is a subgenre of gesaku.
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