著者

藤田 智子

出版者

法政大学国際日本学研究所

雑誌

国際日本学 = INTERNATIONAL JAPANESE STUDIES (ISSN:18838596)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.14, pp.257-279, 2017-01-31

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This paper deals with illustrated storybooks with yellow covers called kibyōshi, which were published in Edo from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. In kibyōshi there were many expressions relating to the various kinds of potatoes that were daily food, such as sato-imo, yamano-imo, naga-mo and satsuma-imo (sweet potato). In particular, the kibyōshi which included the word imo (potato) in their titles or stories were 40. From their analysis emerged 4 patterns of the funny image of potatoes, which are discussed in the following sections, focusing on a representative title each.