Takizawa Bakin

Takizawa Bakin

▪ Japanese writer
born July 4, 1767, Edo [Tokyo], Japan
died Dec. 1, 1848, Edo

      the dominant Japanese writer of the early 19th century, admired for his lengthy, serious historical novels that are highly moral in tone.

      Bakin was the third son of a low-ranking samurai family. His father and mother died while he was still young, and, because of the famine and plague that struck Edo after 1780, he alone lived to continue his family name. After much drifting, he relinquished samurai status, married a merchant's widow, and devoted the next 50 years to writing.

      With his more than 30 long novels—known as yomihon, “reading books”—Bakin created the historical romance in Japan. Court romances, military chronicles, nō plays, popular dramas, legends, and Chinese vernacular fiction all furnished him material. He freed the novel in Edo from subservience to actor, illustrator, and raconteur. Loyalty, filial piety, and the restoration of once-great families were his main themes. His special attention to Chinese civilization, Buddhist philosophy, and national history was tempered by a concern for language and style, compassion for his fellow man, and a belief in human dignity. Still, the samurai tradition and his own innate stubbornness led him to support the established order and gave a strong note of didacticism to his writing. Bakin's finest work is Nansō Satomi hakkenden (1814–42; “Satomi and the Eight Dogs”), on the theme of restoring a family's fortunes; it is acclaimed as a classic of Japanese literature.

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