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Ukiyo-zōshi
is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and the 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka. ''Ukiyozōshi'' literature developed from the ''kanazōshi'' genre and was in fact initially classified as ''kanazōshi''. The term "''ukiyozōshi''" first appeared in about 1710 in reference to amorous or erotic works, but the term later came to refer to literature that encompassed a variety of subjects and aspects of life during the Edo period.
== History ==
Ihara Saikaku's ''Life of an Amorous Man'' is considered the first work in this genre. This work, as well as other amorous literature, drew subject matter from the courtesan critiques and guides to the pleasure quarters that became popular in the 1640s and 1650s. Although Saikaku's works were not regarded as high literature at the time, they became popular and were key to the development and spread of ''ukiyozōshi''.
After Saikaku's death, some notable writers that followed include Nishizawa Ippu, Miyako no Nishiki, and Hojo Dansui, Saikaku's only direct pupil in novel writing. The last significant ''ukiyozōshi'' writer was Ejima Kiseki, from Kyoto. While Kiseki's writing lacked the style and depth of Saikaku's, he is credited with creating the ''katagi-mono'', or character books, a genre that remained popular throughout the eighteenth century. Each book consisted of about fifteen sketches describing various types of people.
By the mid-eighteenth century, Edo had become the center of literary activity, and while ''ukiyozōshi'' continued to be produced until around the 1770s, the genre became stagnant after Kiseki's death and slowly declined.
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