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Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九, – Septem) was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu (重田 貞一), a Japanese writer active during the late Edo period of Japan....
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Jippensha Ikku
Japanese writer
In this Japanese name, the surname is Shigeta.
Jippensha Ikku (十返舎 一九, 1765 – September 12, 1831) was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu (重田 貞一), a Japanesewriter active during the late Edo period of Japan.
He was among the most prolific yellow-backed novel (黄表紙, kibyōshi) writers of the late Edo period — between 1795 and 1801 he wrote a minimum of twenty novels a year. He mainly wrote sharebon (洒落本), kokkeibon (滑稽本) and over 360 illustrated stories, (gōkan, 合巻 ).[1] He also helped create kokkeibon as a genre.
Ikku was one of the most prolific writers of his time, and shaped the literary history that came after him.
Life
Jippensha Ikuu was born in 1765 in the Suruga Province.[2] Ikku's life story is hard to define, because most of what we know about him comes from his own literary works, and hearsay from his peers.[3] What we do know about his actual upbringing is: that he was born in