Contents
Foreword by Kevin M. Doak
Preface
Acknowledgments
Summary of Chapters
The Christian Century in Japan
What Is History?
Evidence of the Failure of the Shogunate’s Anti-Christian Policies
A Biography of Baba Bunkō
Enforcing the Anti-Christian Edict
Hidden Christians
Baba Bunkō’s Christian Literature
Let’s Play “One Hundred Monsters”
Two City Magistrates
Lost in the Land of Demons
Mukōsaki Jinnai, a Healer of Many People
The Law of Karma
The Fall of Kanamori Yorikane
“Raindrops Falling in the Forest”
Peasant Uprising in Gujō
The Itoshiro Disturbance
The Arrest
The Law and Legal Precedents
The Judgment against Baba Bunkō
The Disciples of Baba Bunkō
Censorship
The Atmosphere of Dissent in the Eighteenth Century
Tales of Samurai Revenge
A Tale of Two Shoguns: Tokugawa Yoshimune and Tokugawa Ieshige
A Debate between Two Senior Counselors
The Shogun’s Physician, Hattori Kenzui
Bribery of the Senior Counselor
Tokugawa Munekatsu, Daimyō of Owari
Miwa Shissai, Confucian Scholar
Hayashi Nobumitsu, Head of the Confucian Academy
Social and Intellectual Trends of the Period
Tales of Contemporary Edo 1: Jinzaemon
Tales of Contemporary Edo 2: Yaoya Oshichi
Selective History
The Environment for Satire
Amagasaki Ikko, Samurai-Merchant
A Satire of Self-Sacrifice
Other Edo Satirists
Bunkō’s Literary Heritage in Kōshaku
Bunkō’s Literary Heritage in Dangibon
Bunkō’s Literary Heritage in Setsuwa Bungaku
Bunkō’s Literary Heritage in Gesaku
Bunkō’s Literary Legacy in Kabuki and Kyōgen Drama
The Bordello and the Shogunate
Conclusion
Liaisons at the Kabuki Theater
The Monster of Matsue
The Tail of the Demon
The Courtesan Segawa V of the Matsubaya Inn
Segawa’s Buddhist Client
A Monk Enamored with Women
Komechō’s Sorrow
Otsuya of the Ōtomoeya Inn
An Insider’s Information
Moral Decline
A Bannerman Forces a Concession from a Daimyō
Gift Giving Replaces the Samurai Ethic
The Marriage of a Daimyō’s Daughter to an Illiterate Commoner
Undisciplined Tokugawa Retainers
Self-Indulgent Daimyō
Fire and Fireworks
Was Baba Bunkō a Christian?
Japanese Contact with Christianity in the Eighteenth Century
A Definition of Christian Literature
Characteristics of Christian Writings in the Eighteenth Century
Absolute Principles in Japanese Morality
The Legacy of Baba Bunkō
Contemporary Edo: An Album of One Hundred Monsters, by Baba Bunkō
List of Names and Terms
Selected Bibliography
Index