#Takizawa Shigenobu

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Woman on a veranda by Takizawa Shigenobu, c. 1720s

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NANSOU SATOMI HAKKENDEN [aka SATOMI AND THE EIGHT “DOGS”] by Takizawa Bakin (1767-1848) [aka Kyokutei Bakin] and Yanagawa Shigenobu. Soft wrapper with stab binding.

This epic novel, entitled Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (Satomi and the eight "dogs") is a yomihon, or reading book, one of the popular genres of Edo-period (1600-1867) prose fiction. It consists of 98 chapters printed in a total of 106 booklets and is considered the largest novel in the history of Japanese Literature [more…]

His territory under siege, Lord Satomi jokingly offers the hand of his daughter Fusehime ("Princess Fuse") to whomever delivers the head of the enemy commander. Satomi is surprised when the family dog Yatsufusa (in fact the incarnation of a vengeful spirit) brings his master the head. The princess — bound by integrity and obligation — must go through with the marriage.

Two years later, Fuse has calmed Yatsufusa’s vengeful spirit but learns that she has somehow become pregnant with half-dog children. Soon after, Yatsufusa is shot dead by Fuse's former husband-to-be Kanamari Daisuke, and Fuse follows by committing seppuku. As she dies, the spirits of her eight unborn "pups" emerge from the wound as mist, snaring her crystal prayer beads and scattering to the winds to be born in different families.

Sixteen years later, Daisuke (now a monk named Chudai) wanders the land to find Fuse's lost children and assemble them under one roof as the "Eight Dog Warriors". Each bears the character 犬 (dog) in their family name, one of the crystal orbs from Fuse's necklace (each marked with one of the Eight Confucian Virtues), and one of Yatsufusa's peony-shaped birthmarks somewhere on their body.

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[bodidarma]

Woman on a veranda by Takizawa Shigenobu(ca 1720-40)

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Standing prostitute wearing a kimono decorated with calligraphy, Takizawa Shigenobu, c. 1730, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

Size: 36 5/8 x 18 5/16 in. (93 x 46.5 cm) (image) 67 5/16 x 23 1/16 in. (171 x 58.5 cm) (mount) W 64 cm w/roller Medium: Ink, color, and gofun on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8606/

[bodidarma]

Woman on a veranda by Takizawa Shigenobu,ca 1720-40)