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Dangibon

Satire and Mystery Fiction

Dangibon is a pre-modern Japanese literary genre written in a humorous, satirical sermon style with the purpose of educating the masses, and is classed as a type of gesaku.

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Gesaku, Genres
Source Dangibon (Wikipedia)
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1. Dangibon (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph, defining sentence
    The dangibon (談義本) was a pre-modern Japanese literary genre.
  • Subgenre Of: Gesaku, Lead paragraph
    It is type of gesaku
  • In Group: Satire and Parody Forms, Lead section
    Texts were written in a humorous, satirical sermon-style with the purpose of educating the masses.
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