Communication Technologies render
Social Power ever more Visible:
=
see newspapers separately below
1869.12.25 Tokyo-Yokohama telegraph
installed.
1871.06.26
Undersea telegraph wire connects Nagasaki to Shanghai
1872.05
Telegraph wiring completed between Kyoto and Osaka.
1872.11?
Telegraph in operation from Tokyo to Osaka.
1873.02.18?
Telegraph in operation from Tokyo to Nagoya.
1871.03 Public mail system (using
stamps and mail boxes) started under Maejima Hisoka.
1872.07 Railroad connects Shinagawa-Yokohama
(40 min's; 31-93 sen); '72.9.9 opening ceremony.
1876.09
Railroad connects Osaka-Kyoto
1872.11 Jinrikisha inventor 'Otokichi'
celebrated in media -- now makes 150-yen/month.
?1870.03
Waizumi Kazu(wa)suke invents jinrikisha (MBGZS 2:445)
~1872 Jinrikisha
gains popularity in cities throughout Japan.
1873.12.01 Postal system institutes
use of postcards.
1874.12.18 Gas lighting begins in
Tokyo streets
1868-1885 Making the Emperor Visible:
the Imperial Progresses, etc:
1868.11.04-11.26 Kyoto-Tokyo Procession
(3,300 in retinue)
1869.03?
??Emperor is said to 'arrive' in Tokyo.
1869.04.10-1869.05.09 ???Kyoto-Tokyo
Procession (3,500 in retinue)
1872.?? Photo of Emperor in European
military garb, to comply with European diplomatic request
1872.06.28-1872.08.15 Chugoku-Saikoku
Tour
1876.06.02-1876.07.21 Tohoku Tour
1878.08.30-1878.11.09 Hokuriku-Tokaido
Tour (largest, 700 in retinue), w/ Iwakura, Okuma
1880.06.16-1880.07.23 Yamanashi-Mie-Kyoto
Tour
1881.07.30-1881.10.11 (350 in retinue)
1885.07.26-1885.08.12 Yamaguchi-Hiroshima-Okayama
Tour
1865-1885 Scholarship about the
West and modernity: a Model for Reform
=
note lack of clear division between these and fictional works, listed below
1866-1870 Fukuzawa, 'Seiyou jijou':
Scholarly examination of Western politics and customs
1867 James C. Hepburn, Waei gorin
shusei (J-E dict): assisted by Kishida Ginkou,
1868.09 Fukuzawa, Kyuuri zukai (Outline
of Science).
1869.01 Sugita Genpaku (posth.),
Rangaku kotohajime: on introduction of Dutch medicine to Japan.
1869.?1 Sansantei Arindou, Retsujo
meimeiden: On women??? Western??
1869.08 Fukuzawa Yukichi, Sekai kunizukushi:
NeophyteÕs guide to the world, in ditty form
1870-1874 Kanagaki Robun, Shanks
Mare to the Western Seas: comic journey towards civilization
1871.07 Samuel Smiles, Self Help
(tr. Nakamura) Biographies of self-made business-military giants
1872.02 J.S.Mill, On Liberty (Jiyuu
no kotowari, tr. Nakamura)
1872.03 Fukuzawa Yukichi, Gakumon
no susume: Ex-samurai should learn entreprenurial skills
1872.01 Kanagaki Robun, Yamato-ji
seiyou bunko, 8v: bio. of Napolean, from various sources
1870s Theater plays by Kawatake Mokuami
lampoon Japanese Westernists.
?? Zen'aku-ryoomen ko no tegashiwa:
Beauty Daqi of ancient China destroys her country.
=
see also the koodan by Nidaime Momokawa Nyo???
1874.03-1875.11 Meiroku zasshi: essays
by moderate "independent" writers supporting Meiji rule:
=
Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakamura Keiu, Katou Hiroyuki, Nishi Amane, Tsuda Mamichi,
1875.05 J.S.Mill, On Representative
Government (transl. by Nagamine Hideki)
1875.06 Nishi Amane, The Three Treasures
of Life:
1875.12 Katou Hiroyuki, New Thesis
on the Body Politic:
1876.01 Montesquieu, The Spirit of
Laws (Banpouseiri, ?Nani Yoshiyuki?):
1876.12 Nakamura Keiu essays on four
evils of novels, ten laws to destroy lewd books
1877.05 J.S.Mill, ??? (Rigaku, Nishi
Amane)
1877.09-1882.10 Taguchi Ukichi, Nihon
kaika shooshi: history of Japan's modernization.
1877.12 J.J.Rousseau, The Social
Contract (Minyaku ron, Hattori Toku)
1878.09 J.Bentham, ripp?rontuna (tr.
Shimada Saburou)
1878.10 H.Spencer, Thesis on Representative
Government (tr. Suzuki Yoshimune)
1879.04 Ueki Emori, Thesis on Citizen's
Rights and Freedom:
1879.04.23 Asano Kan, essay in Chouya
shinbun, defending novels
Gesaku Fiction and Illustrations
lampoon Infatuation with the West
Narushima Ryuuhoku, Ryuukyou shinshi:
kanbun gesaku
1871-72.?1 Kanagaki Robun, Aguranabe:
Vignettes of social strata at a beef restaurant
1872.09 Fukuzawa Yukichi, Katawa
musume (Crippled Daughter), satire of tooth-blacking.
1873.? Nakamura Setsudai, Katawa
musuko (Crippled Son): satire of FukuzawaÕs Westernism.
1873.03 Mantei Ooga, Toosei rikoo
musume:
1873.03 Hagiwara ??-hiko, Tookyoo
kaika hanshooki:
1873.04 Hattori Seiichi (Bushoo),
Toukyou shin hanshouki: kanbun gesaku
1873.11 Kikuchi Sankei, Tookyoo shashin
kagami: poetry and illustrations.
1874.10 Mantei Ooga, Nihon onna kyoushi:
Performance Art confronts Westernization
= yose, rokugo/ninjoubanashi,
koudan/koudanshi,
Kawatake Mokuami plays....
1870s Henry Black performs rakugo
adaptations of Western lit.
1870s theaters proliferate...
?? Kawatake Shinshichi writes for
Danjuroo.
?? 1878 Ichikawa Danjurou uses everyday
speech, no exaggerated movements.
Morita Kanya (the 12th) advocates
theater reform: establishes theater as major cultural force
1872 Morita-za
moves from Asakusa Saruwaka-chou to city center Shintomi-machi
1875 Morita-za
incorporated under revised name Shintomi-za
?? burns down:
uses temporary shelters for performances until new building finished 1878.06
1878.03 play about
Seinan War (Okige no kumo haroo asa gochi)
= huge profits
enable new building and grand opening {Furuido Hideo 1999}
1878.06.07~08
Shintomi-za opens with kabuki plays on Tokugawa Ieyasu (Matsuei chiyoda
shintoku)
= gala event:
invitations sent to over 1,000 top goverment officials and luminaries
= at ceremony,
Danjurou read a traditional chouka, then 270 gas lamps were lit
?1885 Seiyoubanashi Nihon utsushie:
adaptation from Enchou, Seiyou ninjoubanashi
1870-1880 Newspapers (big and little)
Reshape National Community:
= Newspapers peak
in 1881=253; low in 1883=199; 1885=321; peak in 1894=814
= for definition
of big and little, see Nozaki Safumi, in Okitsu Kaname, NKBTK 1:22
= for laws on
publication, see page on early Meiji government
1860-1867 Foreign papers; small public
circulation {see Huffman for important early history}
1862 Japan Punch: Wirgman?
1865 Kaigai shinbun: Hamada Hikozou
1868.? Shinbunshi jourei: forbids
publication without permission; temporarily stops newspapers.
1868 Yokohama shinpo mosihogusa:
Van Leed (US)
1868.06.18 Dajoukan Decree 358: all
new books will require official permission before printing
1868.07.12? Fukuchi jailed for essay
criticizin new govt;
1868 War bulletins;
1868.07.28 Dajoukan Decree 451: all
newspapers will require publication license
= stipulates
punishments: wipes out pre-Meiji news organs {Huffman 1997:44}
1869.04.18? Shinbunshi inkoo joorei:
revised newspaper law, did not require censorship (?)
Publication Edicts: censorship system;
prohibition of public agitation or lampoons of govt.
1870.12.08 Yokohama mainichibegins:
reports on commerce, current events:
= aimed
specifically at merchant-class readership
= Koyasu
Shun?, You Kiji? use lead typeset made by Motogi Shozo, using his poetry
teacher's hand
1871-1873 Spread of govt bulletins;
distribution to rural areas; designation of paper readers;
1871.? Shinbun zasshi: Kido
Takayoshi, supports govt,
1871.05
(v.2) reports song "Tap on a crewcut head, and hear the sound of..."
1873.07
Shinbun zasshi (v.114) lists 77 different newspapers published since 1868.
?? 1872 Fire destroys center of publication
industry (Ito Sei).
1872 newspapers proliferate: 38 in
1872; 40 in 1873; mostly katsuji by 1874
1872.02.21 Tokyo nichinichi (big):
Jouno Denpei (=Sansantei Yuujin), Ochiai Yoshiiku, Nishida Densuke
= gesaku/ukiyo
origins, easy writing for masses, Kishida '73 uses vernacular, first daily
paper
1874 first
newspaper battle reportage, from Taiwan, by Kishida Ginkou,
1874 Fukuchi
Ouchi (=Gen'ichirou) editor from '74, supports government.
1882 becomes
organ for Rikken teiseitou (Constitutional Imperial Party)
1872.06.10 Yuubin houchi shinbun
(big) daily from '73; Maejima Hisoka; news from 72 prefectures
= Maejima
gets postal service to deliver free to all prefectures
= under
Fukuzawa group from '74: Kurimoto (74.6: big in Bakufu, anti-Meiji), Fujita,
Yano;
c. 1882??
becomes Kaishintou organ.
1872.11.13 ?? Kobun tsuushi: with
furigana, aimed at masses: later ??
= ed. Otobe
Kanae?? tries to intellectualize: '74 ed. Narushima Ryuhoku
1872??? Kyoobusho proscriptions on
literary publication; publication act?
1873.1 Toukyou kanagaki shinbun (little):
lasts only three editions.
1873.2.15 Mainichi hiragana shinbun
(little): Maejima Hisoka: readability for non-elites.
1874.5 stopped.
1873-74 Govt bulletins decline in
number.
1874-84 Newspapers thrive with FPRM,
Taiwan war reportage:
1874 (6.9 pages per 10,000 population):
1877 (26/10,000) {Itoo Sei}.
1874.4 Tokyo shinhansh™ki: Hattori
Seiichi (Busho).
1874.9.24 Choya shinbun (big): Narushima
Ryuhoku: critical of govt:
1875.2.25
Editorial criticizes for opposing modernization programs.
1875.8.28
Narushima confined to house five days, punishment for criticizing govt
laws.
1875.10.7
Suehiro Tetcho joins paper after release; Suehiro and Narushima satire
of Inoue...
1874.11.2 Yomiuri shinbun (little):
Koyasu et al; at Kotahira-cho: 26x35c: 'for women and children'
= Honda
(41) calls it the first of the koshinbun: typeset;
1875.4.17 Hiragana e-iri shinbun:
Takabatake Ransen uses yomihon, kusazoshi styles.
1875.11 Kanayomi shinbun under
Kanagaki Robun, breaks off from Yokohama mainichi:
1876.2.13 Suehiro imprisoned 8 months,
fined 200-yen. Narushima 4 months; 100-yen.
1877.2 circulation hits 18,000.
1878.5.15 Narushima story on Shimada
Ichirou: publication stopped 5 days.
1879 circulation drops to 9,000.
1875.3 Hyoron shinbun, v.2: Saigo
group declares ministers of state should be put to death.
1876.3 Toukyou e-iri shinbun:
renamed from Toukyou hiragana e-iri shinbun, from Hiragana e-iri shinbun
1876.7 publication stopped after
running afoul of libel laws, etc. (109 volumes).
1875.4.17 Hiragana e-iri shinbun
(little): Takabatake Ransen, Somezaki Nobufusa
later renamed Tookyoo e-iri shinbun.
??? Azuma shinbun: Ooi Kentaro
(circulation banned).
1875.11.1 Kanayomi shinbun (little):
Kanagaki Robun
1876.2.20 Oosaka nippou (big):
Komuro Shinsuke
1877.12.15
Osaka shinpoo (big): breakoff from Osaka nippoo.
1876.4-1883.1 Tookyoo shinshi: kanbun
gesaku
vol 334:
Hattori Busho writes parody of Inoue Kaoru family affairs: publication
halted.
1877.1.5~ Tokyo Times, saturday weekly,
in English, under E.H.House.
1877.1 (~1884.10) Kagetsu shinshi:
Narushima Ryuuhoku, editor. kanbun gesaku.
1877.8.3 Osaka shinbun (small):
1877.11 Robun chinpoo: Kanagaki Robun,
editor.
1877.11 Tookyooo mainichi yuu shinbun:
first evening newspaper.
1879 Yokohama mainichi bought by
Numa Morikazu, renamed T™ky?Yokohama mainichi.
?1882 becomes
organ for Kaishintoo.
1879 Tokyo keizai zasshi: ed. Taguchi
Ukichi:
1879.1.25~ Asahi shinbun (small):
Osaka; Tsuda Taku?Ken? (from Kochi).
1879 price
1-sen/copy; circulation 4,500 within 6-months; values quick reportage.
1879? management
problems: break-off group starts Sakigake shinbun.
1879? Reorganized:
furigana, red-type added to ease reading.
???? Meiji nippoo: ed. Maruyama Sakuraku:
organ (w/ Tokyo nichinichi) of Imperial Party.
1888.12.19 Osaka detchi shinbun (small):
first two issues distributed free.
1876-1880 Boom Begins in Translated
Novels:
1848? Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe (Kuroda Kikuro, 75p): tr. from Dutch
1857 Defoe,
Robinson Crusoe (Yokoyama Yuusei, 16p): identified as fiction
1861 Christmijer
Belangrijke, De Jonker van Roderijke (Kanda Koohei, Oran biseidan): detective
novel
1871 Excerpts from Bible (tr. 'Teisei
Gakunin', 5v): one of several editions of excerpts
1872-1873 Aesop, Fables (tr. Watabe
Yutaka): one of several editions of excerpts
1872.04 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Saitoo
Ryooan): tr. from Dutch (based on/same as Kuroda, c.1851?: 2v?)
1874.05 --story from 1867 French
textbook-- (Kobayashi Kenkichi, Ryuubetsu kidan)
=
French siblings shipwrecked in Africa, rescued from savagery by Fr navy.
1874 ?Dioscorides (=Dutch pen-name),
Shin miraiki (tr. Kamijoo 1878 tr. Kondoo): on future London
1875.05 Arabian Nights (Nagamine
Hideki)
1875.09.07-1875.09.10 Shakespeare,
Hamlet (Kanagaki Robun, Yoobu retsudo, in Tokyo hiragana e-iri)
1876.04.14-77.08.24 Bunyan, Pilgrim's
Progress (Murakami Shunkichi, Tenro rekitei i-yaku)
1877.09-78.02 (reprint) Christmijer,
De Jonker van Roderijke, (Kanda Kohei, Oranda biseidan:, 1861?).
1877.12 Shakespeare, Merchant of
V. (tr. unk., Kyooniku no kishoo, in Minkan zasshi)
1877 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Yamada
Masataka, Kaisei bidan)
1878 Verne, Around the World in Eighty
Days (Kawashima Tadanosuke)
1878 ?Dioscorides (from Dutch?),
Shin miraiki (Kondoo Masakoto; c.f. 1874): future London
1878 ?John Malley, London Guidebook
(tr. Niwa):
1878.10 Lytton, Ernest Maltravers,
Alice (tr. Niwa, Karyuu shunwa):
1879 Fenelon, Telemaque (tr. Miyajima):
1879 Lytton, The Last Days of Pompei
(tr. Oda? Niwa?):
1879 Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (tr.
Kondo, Tenro rekitei)
1879 ?Elizabeth Starling, ?Lives
of Famous Women (tr. Miyazaki Kuniyoshi):
1880.03 Swift, Gulliver's Travels
(tr. Katayama Heisaburoo)
1880.03-1881.03 Verne, From Earth
to Moon (Inoue Susumu)
1880.04 Scott, Bride of Lammermoor
(tr. Tsubouchi): first 3-1/2 chapters only
1880.11 Lytton, Strange Stories (Inoue
Tsutomu, London kidan)
1880.? Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea (Suzuki)
1876-1882 Boom in docu-fiction (jitsuroku) of sex, violence, injustice
--------Stories of Murder, Assassination,
Revenge (fukushuu-mono)------
1873.02.07 Vengeance murders, though
acceptable by Confucian standards, are declared illegal.
1875? Iwata Yasoya kills wife
for being unfaithful
1875.11.29-11.30
(12.28-30?) Takabatake Ransen, Iwata Yasoya no hanasi: first of the 'tsuzukimono'.
= in Hiragana
e-iri shinbun; Man murders unfaithful wife, then travels seeking expiation.
= based
on actual trial: arrested 10.25, sentenced 11.24 to 80 days prison {Honda
63}
= article
was not unusual, just long enough to merit two installments, thus called
tsuzukimono {Honda 64}
= narrates
events from 11 yrs previously, trying to stab wife.
1878.05 Shimada Ichirou (et
al) assassinates Ookubo Toshimichi.
1875.05
Ookubo niseiroku: ?? about the assassination ???
1879.06-1879.12
Okamoto Kisen, Shimada Ichirou samidare nikki:
1880.12.17 Usui Rokurou kills
Tokyo judge Ichinose Naohisa to avenge father's murder.
1870.05.23
Rokurou's father Watari killed by anti-foreigner private militia, incl.
Ichinose.
1881.01-1881.03
Saiga Ryuukou, Fuyu momiji tsuki yuubae: Usui Rokurou story.
1881.09.21
Tokyo court sentences Rokurou to life imprisonment.
1891.09
released {see Meiji nyuusu jiten}
1891.09.22
give grand party: at residence of Nezu Jinsen???
= included: Yamaoka Goshitsu, Ooi Kentarou Hoshi Tooru, Harada Ichidou
= also: Nakamura Rokusuke, Okamoto Ransuke(?), Nait???.
= also swordsmen performed: Asakaga Matashichir?(?), Fujisato (?), Iba
Sootaroo (?)
= also biwa performance by...
1881 Okamoto Kisen, Kawakami Yukiyoshi
adauchi banashi:
1881 Matsubayashi Hakuen, Imatokiwafuse
monogatari:
1883 Itoo Senz? Kaimei sh™setsu shashin
adauchi:
1884 Takabatake Ransen, Ch™tori tsukuba
no susomoy?
1884 S™ma Disruption {Matsuzaki
MBKZS 21:10}
=
S™ma-han (?east of Fukushima) was small, but family made fortune on Ashio
copper mine investment
1876 S™ma
Sei'in (age 25) begins to manifest symptoms of (hereditary) paranoia, violent
dementia
1879.04
Father (?atsutane, ?mitsutane) and family decide to have him confined
1883.12
Nishikiori (?Yoshikiyo: son of a roonin) demands that the family release
him, etc.
= he knew about it because he worked for S™ma vassal Aota (?K™z?: clearly,
it was extortion
?? Nishikiori's
attempts at extortion are refused: he attacks residence: demands to meet
Sei'in.
= he is captured, taken to police: claims motivation was to demonstrate
his loyalty to Sei'in
1884.03
Sei'in is taken to private insane asylum in Hongou: Nishikiori again demands
to speak to Sei'in
= Sei'in refuses: Nishikiori fabricates letter of trust: claims Sei'in
is falsely imprisoned:
= Sei'in is released, goes home: wife dies suddenly from lung infection:
1884.07
Sei'in is returned to Sugamo asylum:
1884.11
Nishikiori demands to see him again: this time, he is imprisoned at Kajibashi.
=
news media and theaters portray Nishikiori as protagonist, S™ma family
as villains
1885.03
Takabatake Ransen, Kokubyaku somewake tazuna(Tether died in black
and white): novelization
= follows media interpretation; changes names;
--------Adventure Stories --------------------------------------------
1878.08.21-1878.08.28 Maeda Koosetsu,
Kinnosuke no hanashi, ups and downs of merchant life.
--------Restoration Stories
(ishin-mono)-----------------------------------------------
1873.?-76.? Matsumura Shunsuke, Fukko-yume
monogatari: docu-story of final battles of bakufu.
1880.09 Okamoto Kisen, Sawamura Tanosuke
akebono zooshi: story from c.1866.
--------1876-1877 Seinan War Stories---------------------------------------
1876.11 Shinoda Senka, Kumamoto taiheiki:
1876.11 Shinoda Senka, ?Amakusashima
yuumei no kaigoo:
1877.03 Shinoda Senka, Kagoshima
sensooki:
1877.09 Numajiri ?Keiichiroo, ?Seinan
chinseiroku:
--------Poison-Woman Stories
(dokufu-mono)-------------------------------------------
Canonical dokufu stories:
Kokutei Bakin,
Nansoo satomi hakken den: character Funamushi
? Kumazaka Oroku:
in kusazooshi, kabuki
?? Dakki no Ohyaku:
<Omatsu> outcaste woman
involved with army soldier
1877.12.10-1878.01.11
Torioi
Omatsu no den (Kubota) published in Kanayomi shinbun.
1878.02 Kubota
Hikosaku, Torioi Omatsu kaijooshinwa: Outcaste woman commits crimes,
repents.
<Okinu> Harada Kinu (1843?-1872)
= poisoned her husband to have affair with kabuki actor Arashi Rikaku;
1872.02.23
Kooko
shinbun reports 2.20 execution of Harada Kinu (29)
1878.06-1878.11
Okamoto Kanzo, Yoarashi Okinu hana no adayume:
<Otaki>
1878 Reireitei
Ryžky? Sanpatsu Otaki kaika no sugatami:
1878 Senryuutei
Zeisei, Sekijitsu shinwa:
<Oden> Takahashi Oden (1847-1879)
adopted daughter of 'Heimin Kuzaemon' of Gunma Pref.
= wife of Takahashi
Naminosuke, a farmer in Numata (Jooshuu);
1876.08 arrested
for murder of man she was living with
1876.09 story
of arrest in newspapers: Yomiuri, Kanayomi, Yuubin Hoochi, Tokyo Akebono
1876.09.12 Yuubin Hoochi article compares Oden with Kumazaka Oroku
1879.01.31 Trial
uses evidence of Oden's confession; convicted; executed the same day.
1879.02.01-2.04
her body is autopsied 'in great detail' at the Tokyo Fifth Hospital: Dr.
Koyamauchi Ken.
1897.02.01 Takahashi
Oden no Kuchiyose (in Yuubin hoochi shinbun): Oden's confession
1879.02.01-1879.05.06
Okamoto Kisen (=Kanzoo), Oden no hanashi (in Tokyo shinbun)
1879.02.11-1879.04.?? Sonona Takahashi dokufu no Oden / Tookyoo kibun (Toosendoo):
compilation of above
1897.02.01-1879.02.02
Oden no hanashi (in Kanayomi shinbun): author might not have been Robun
= discontinued to allow tankoobon (below) to compete Okamoto Kisen's work
by rival publisher
1879.02.14-1879.04.?? Kanagaki Robun, Takahasi Oden yasha monogatari (Tsujibun):
= first publication to use typeset (kappanzuri); illustrations by Morikawa
Kaneshige;
= portrays Oden as savvy about rights (Kamei 2000:31)
1879..02.02-1879.02.05
Dokufu Takahasi Oden no hanashi (in Ukiyo shinbun)
1879.05.18 Kawatake
Mokuami, Tojiawase Oden no kanabumi (Shintomiza):
= Mokuami passes judgement: good within evil: portrays Oden as ignorant
of new law (Kamei 2000:31)
1879.05.30 script published in Kabuki Shinpoo (v.17)
1880.05 Yoshida
Shookichi, Takahashi Oden kudoki:
1881.10 Kanagaki,
Fujimatsu Kaganotayuu, Namimakura ukinano Takahashi:
1883.01 Kikuchi
Sankei, Ensikoden: kanbun translation of Takahashi Oden yasha monogatari;
in Honchoo Gusho Shinshi
1884.07 Yoda Gakkai,
Oden giku: kanbun translation of Oden's confession; in Tankai, v.3
1879 Itoo Senzoo, Mizu no nishiki
sumida no akebono:
??? Kawatake Mokuami, Zen-aku ryoomen
ko no tegashiwa:
1880 Okamoto Kanzoo, Maborosi Otake
uwasa no kigaki:
-------Peasant Uprising Stories
(ikki-mono)-----------------------------------------------
1880.10 Takeda Koorai, Kanmuri no
matsu Mado no yoarashi:
1882 Takeda
dies
1881.05-1881.10 Saigaen Ryuukoo,
Mushirobata gunma no inanaki
--------End of Jitsuroku------------------------------------------------
1886.spring Yomiuri Shinbun replaces
tsuzukimono with shosetsu-ran: will accept pure fiction
= signals
beginning of differentiation between news reporters and novelists (Kamei
2000:34)
1881-1890 Continued Boom in Translated
Novels
1881 Dumas, Fifty-nine (Matsuoka
Kameo)
1882 Bocaccio, Decameron (tr. Ookubo):
1882 Dumas, Memoirs d'un medecin
(Sakurada Momoe, Nishinoumi chishio no yoarashi):
1882 ?? (Miyazaki Muryuu, Ennoo
no shimoto): bio of Vera Sasulich
1882 ?Numano ?Etsu, Choomu kien?
1882.02 Thomas Moore, Utopia, (Inoue
Tsutomu, Ryooseifu dan):
1882.09 Paul Vernier, The Chase of
the Nihilists (Kawashima Tadanosuke, Kyomutoo taiji kidan)
1883.02.17-04.11 Shakespeare, Julius
Caesar (Kawashima, Julius Caesar no geki, Nihon rikkenseit?shinbun)
1883.06 Pushkin, The Captain's Daughter,
Takasu?Takata Naosuke?Harusuke, Kashin chooshi roku
1883.07 Arabian Nights (Inoue Tsutomu)
1883.10 Shakespeare (Lamb), Merchant
of Venice (Inoue Tsutomu, Jinniku sitiiri saiban)
1883.10 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (tr.
Inoue Tsutomu): retranslation of 1872, 1877
1883.12 Fenelon, Telemaque (tr. Izawa
Shinzo): a retranslation of 1879 by Miyajima?
1883 Verne, Thirty-five Days over
the African Wilderness (Inoue Susumu):
1884.01 Scott, Lady of the Lake (Tsubouchi
Shoyo & ?Hanki, Shunso kiwa)
1884.03 Disraeli, Coningsby (Seki
Naohiko, Shun'ooten):
1884.05 Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
(Tsubouchi, Jiyuu no tachi yonami): see above
1884 Jeanette Takky?, Fukoku bidan
(tales of France, tr. Kuriya Sekikazu?)
1884 Verne, Martin Posse (Inoue Tsutomu):
Russian revolutionaries?
1884.07 Goethe, Reinecke Fuchs (Inoue
Tsutomu, Kitsune no saiban):
1884 Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea (Taihei Sanji): prev. trans. 1880
1884.12 Stepniak (Kravchinski), Tales
of the Russian Underground (Miyazaki Muryuu, Kishuushuu):
1885.02 Lytton, Rienzi (Tsubouchi
Shoyo, Gaisei shiden): "novels are a transformation of poetry"
=
re: Nina ignores the beautiful scene around her {Komori p227-9}
1885 Lytton, Kenelm Chilingly (Asahina
Chisen, Keishidan): word-for-word translation.
1885.07 Shakespeare, Hamlet (Tsubouchi
Shoyo)
1886 Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
(Kawashima Keizoo, Shujoo ukiyo no yume): in 5-7 rhythm.
1886 Bocaccio, Decameron (Sano Naoshige):
retrans. of 1882 Okubo?: Fifth day, seventh story
1886 ... Kanda Koohei, Yongeru kidan:
reissue of 1861(1877) Oranda biseidan.
1886 Disraeli, Endymion (Watanabe
Osamu, Seikai no jooha):
1886 Tolstoy, War and Peace (Mori
Tai, Hokuoo kessen yojin):
1886 Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress:
reissue/retrans. of 1879?
1886 Scott, Ivanhoe (Ushiyama Kakudoo,
Bairai Yokun):
1887 Cervantes (Saitoo ??, Tanima
no uguisu):
1887 Bocaccio, Decameron (Kondoo
Toonosuke, En'oo kikan): Third day third story
1887 Erkman Chatrian, ?, tr. Komiyayama
Keisuke?, ?
1887 Cervantes, tr. Nakamura Ryuuxx?,
Bijin no xx:
1887 Dumas, Count of Monte Christo
(Seki Naohiko, Seiyoo fukushuu kidan):
1888 Turgenev, Hunter's Album (Futabatei
Shimei, Aibiki, Meguriai):