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There is a long tradition of tales about a "snake woman" from the ancient to the early modern times, but the meaning of the tales had been shifted over the periods. In the Buddhist literature of the Middle Ages, especially in Kojiki, the "snake woman" tale was moralistically written on purpose to warn women against jealousy and other wicked emotions. In the Edo Period, however, such a moralistic tone faded away. Instead the tales were nerrated as ghost stories in which the monstrosity of the snake woman came to be emphasized.
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Hideki Fujiwara
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Shin-kasho-ki by Ihara-Saikaku has been regarded as a failure because it was badly written in a hurry. Especially "Ichi-ni-magiruru-mononofu," the third tale of the fourth volume, exposes the meagerness of the book by its poor illustrations. But among the illustrations there is a strange yet interesting one, in which the criminal caught the criminal himself. What does it mean? Can any moral be drawn from the illustration? In this article I will try to solve this mystery while interpreting the textual part and considering how the tale was read by contemporary readers.
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Yoshinobu Sugimoto
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The second tale of the first volume of Honcho-ouin-hiji was written under the influence of Toin-hiji, a collection of stories about famous judicial decisions in China. Although it looks like pure fiction, it is in fact based on an actual case. Thus the contemporary readers were sort of challenged by the author Ihara-Saikaku to solve a mystery, that is, to find the source of the tale. Indeed, the leading character might have reminded some acute readers of an actual person named Kadokura, one of the three richest in Kyoto who was an acquaintance of the Itakuras, a family of the vice governor of Kyoto, and Hayashi-Razan, a famous Confucian scholar. The key to solving the mystery seems to be found not only in the second tale itself but also in the arrangement of all the tales of the volume.
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Michio Hara
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Izutsu-Narihira-kawachi-gayoi, a joruri play Chikamatsu-Monzaemon wrote in his late career, can be read in many senses as a mystery and horror story. For example, the scene of the usurpation by Koretaka-Shinno is very thrilling with an effect of horror, and that of Shinno's illicit love with Nijo-no-Kisaki is constructed on a well-conceived plot of mystery and its solution.
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Takeshi Fujisawa
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Ooka-seidan is often said to be one of the earliest mystery stories although it is in fact a documentary on actual trials. The pattern of the documentary is very simple; a difficult case takes place but the magistrate Ooka-Echizen-no-Kami excellently solves it after all. Despite its simple plot, it is narrated in so a dexterous way as to keep the reader in great suspense about how a mystery will be solved. Unlike a whodunit there is no surprising detection of a criminal in it, but certainly it can be read as a mystery story.
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Itsuo Asago
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When Hanshichi-torimono-cho first appeared in the magazine Bungei Club in the sixth year of the Taisho Period, the author Kido Okamoto set the birth year of Hanshichi in the Tenpo Period. In the Shunyo-do edition published in the fourth year of the Showa Period, however, it is told that Hanshichi was born in the Bunsei Period. Later in the eleventh year of the Showa Period, when the framework of the series was completed, the second birth year of the main character was specified as the sixth year of the Bunsei Period. As will be shown in this article, this apparently minor change of the hero's birth year was related to the world of kabuki of the Edo Period, on which the whole story is indirectly yet decidedly founded.
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Takaharu Yamamoto
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Isamu Iida
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Kazuhiro Tateishi
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Tomoyuki Matsuoka
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Sumio Rinbara
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Shoji Hidaka
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