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Institutionalizing Saikaku: Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization. Molly Des Jardin University of Michigan. Kōtei Saikaku zenshū, 1894 (Hakubunkan). Saikaku chronology. mid-1880s: “discovery,” collection, social circulation
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Institutionalizing Saikaku:Social Provenance and Literary Legitimization Molly Des Jardin University of Michigan
Saikaku chronology • mid-1880s: “discovery,” collection, social circulation • late 1880s-early 1890s: reprinting (typeset circulation), adaptation, promotion, early criticism • 1894: publication of Kōtei Saikaku zenshū in Teikoku bunko by Hakubunkan (large-scale commercial circulation)
愛鶴軒 ai kaku ken (Awashima Kangetsu) Bunko
Awashima Kangetsu as Aikaku-ken Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa as Otowa-an Shōbungaku
archival provenance Chain of custody leading back to the purported origin of an object Proof of authenticity and legitimacy
Ozaki Kōyō Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa “Ihara Saikaku,” Saikaku zenshū
Genroku Taiheiki “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū
Takizawa Bakin “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū
Sources (including Genroku 5 catalog) from which Saikaku’s “complete works” were deduced Watanabe (Ōhashi) Otowa “Saikaku zehi,” Saikaku zenshū
Edition (publication date) Owner of source text “Kōshoku go’nin onna,” Saikaku zenshū
Genroku taiheiki Edition (publication date) Genroku Taiheiki, Saikaku zenshū
“social provenance” • Genealogy • Synchronic Embedded in a constructed “present” moment as living endpoint in an intellectual / social chain of custody Mutual authenticity and legitimacy