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*''Died: [[1718]]''

*''Died: [[1718]]''

*''Other Names'': 朝日文左衛門 ''(Asahi Monzaemon)''

*''Other Names'': 朝日文左衛門 ''(Asahi Monzaemon)''

Asahi Shigeaki was a middle-ranking retainer to [[Owari han|Owari domain]] around the [[Genroku period]]. He is particularly known for his extremely lengthy personal diary, the ''Ômurôchûki'' 鸚鵡籠中記, which he kept for 34 years.

Asahi Shigeaki was a middle-ranking retainer to [[Owari han|Owari domain]] around the [[Genroku period]]. He is particularly known for his extremely lengthy personal diary, the ''Ômurôchûki'' 鸚鵡籠中記, which he kept for 34 years.

Shigeaki held a fief worth 100 ''[[koku]]''. His diary relates events and activities of his life from the time he was seventeen, until one year before his death, as a grandfather, at the age of 45.

Shigeaki held a fief worth 100 ''[[koku]]''. His diary relates events and activities of his life from the time he was seventeen in [[1684]], until one year before his death, as a grandfather, at the age of 45.

Like many of his time, Shigeaki was an active gambler and patron of [[courtesans|brothels]]. His diary contains valuable insights into [[Edo period]] gambling and city life otherwise, from the perspective of an individual person's actual life. This includes descriptions of where he went gambling and how the gambling was done, the fact that he often went with his mother to gambling houses, and that the proprietor of one of the gambling houses he regularly frequented was at one point arrested, paraded through the streets, and then crucified. One of Shigeaki's cousins was banished from the domain for his gambling, and in conjunction with this Shigeaki and the rest of the family were obliged to remain indoors for a time, as a form of collective punishment upon the family for the cousin's wrongdoing.

Like many of his time, Shigeaki was an active gambler and patron of [[courtesans|brothels]]. His diary contains valuable insights into [[Edo period]] gambling and city life otherwise, from the perspective of an individual person's actual life. This includes descriptions of where he went gambling and how the gambling was done, the fact that he often went with his mother to gambling houses, and that the proprietor of one of the gambling houses he regularly frequented was at one point arrested, paraded through the streets, and then crucified. One of Shigeaki's cousins was banished from the domain for his gambling, and in conjunction with this Shigeaki and the rest of the family were obliged to remain indoors for a time, as a form of collective punishment upon the family for the cousin's wrongdoing.

==References==

==References==

*Luke Roberts, "A Transgressive Life: the Diary of a Genroku Samurai," ''Early Modern Japan'' 5:2 (1995), 25-30.

*Luke Roberts, "A Transgressive Life: the Diary of a Genroku Samurai," ''Early Modern Japan'' 5:2 (1995), 25-30.

[[Category:Samurai]]

[[Category:Samurai]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]