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*''Born: [[1767]]''

*''Born: [[1767]]/6/9''

*''Died: [[1848]]''

*''Died: [[1848]]/11/6''

*''Other Names'': 曲亭馬琴 ''(Kyokutei Bakin)''

*''Other Names'': 曲亭馬琴 ''(Kyokutei Bakin)'', 興邦 ''(Okikuni)''

*''Japanese'': 滝沢馬琴 ''(Takizawa Bakin)''

*''Japanese'': 滝沢馬琴 ''(Takizawa Bakin)''

Takizawa Bakin was a prominent writer of [[Edo period]] fiction. His most popular works are likely ''[[Hakkenden|Nansô satomi hakkenden]]'' ([[1814]]-[[1842]]), and ''[[Chinsetsu yumihari tsuki]]'' ([[1807]]-[[1811]], a tale of [[Minamoto no Tametomo]]).<ref>William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 96.</ref>

Takizawa Bakin was a prominent writer of [[Edo period]] fiction. His most popular works include ''[[Hakkenden|Nansô satomi hakkenden]]'' ([[1814]]-[[1842]]), and ''[[Chinsetsu yumihari tsuki]]'' ([[1807]]-[[1811]], a tale of [[Minamoto no Tametomo]]).<ref>William Fleming, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō (1756-1810) and the Development of Late Edo Fiction,” PhD dissertation, Harvard University (2011), 96.</ref>

Bakin also wrote the first widely distributed Japanese-language version of the ''[[Suikoden]]'', published serially from [[1805]] to [[1835]], with illustrations by [[Katsushika Hokusai]].

Bakin was born on [[1767]]/6/9 in the [[Edo]] mansion of ''[[hatamoto]]'' [[Matsudaira Nobunari]]; he was the fifth son of a low-ranking ''[[yonin|yônin]]'' official who served under Nobunari. His father died when Bakin was nine years old, in [[1775]]. He remained in the Matsudaira house for a time, as a playmate to Nobunari's grandchildren, but left the house in [[1780]] at the age of 14, taking up a residence in the Edo neighborhood of Monzen-nakachô. Ten years later, in [[1790]], he became a student of the author [[Santo Kyoden|Santô Kyôden]], publishing his first ''[[kibyoshi|kibyôshi]]'' novel, ''Tsukaihotashite nibu kyôgen'' the following year under the name Taiei Sanjin.

 

 

One of his many famous and significant works was the first widely distributed Japanese-language version of the ''[[Suikoden]]'', published serially from [[1805]] to [[1835]], with illustrations by [[Katsushika Hokusai]].

He kept an extensive diary, which has been transcribed and published several times.<ref>Shibata Mitsuhiko 柴田光彦 (ed.), ''Kyokutei Bakin nikki'' 曲亭馬琴日記, four volumes, Tokyo: Chuo koron shinsha (2009).</ref>

He kept an extensive diary, which has been transcribed and published several times.<ref>Shibata Mitsuhiko 柴田光彦 (ed.), ''Kyokutei Bakin nikki'' 曲亭馬琴日記, four volumes, Tokyo: Chuo koron shinsha (2009).</ref>

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