著者

マスキオ パオラ

出版者

日本近世文学会

雑誌

近世文藝 (ISSN:03873412)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.114, pp.45-59, 2021

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Utei-Enba wrote <i>Ka-ni-kuwarenu-majinai-Soga</i> (1779) after the fashion of the <i>kabuki</i> play of the Soga brothers' revenge to vividly depict the scene of card gambling in colloquial style. This paper examines how the author was inspired by several dramatic works in writing it and points out that the narrative and structural characteristics of "kokkeibon" fiction can be already found in it. The origin of humorous stories in colloquial style is traced through Manzōtei's comical book <i>Inaka-shibai</i> (1787) to "ukiyo-monomane" mimic performance, but the use of dialects in them can be attributed to vernacular plays in <i>kabuki</i>. It is thus likely that <i>Ka-ni-kuwarenu-majinai-Soga</i>, a dramatic novel written in vernacular style, was the earliest form of "kokkeibon" novel which had a great influence on Shikite-Sanba and other writers of later generations.