{"id":1595,"date":"2014-09-25T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:38:17","slug":"library-exhibition-phantoms-and-heroes-on-the-loose-in-edo-the-origins-and-development-of-tales-of-the-water-margin-suikoden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/news-en\/2014\/09\/25\/1595\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Exhibition &#8220;Phantoms and Heroes on the Loose in Edo: The Origins and Development of Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden) &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry_description\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/463.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1542 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/08\/463.jpg\" alt=\"463\" width=\"317\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a>Period \uff1a 2014\/10\/17\uff08Fri\uff09\uff5e2014\/11\/27\uff08Thu\uff09<br \/>\nVenue \uff1a Exhibition Room on the 2nd floor of the Center for Scholarly Information (Building No. 18)<br \/>\nHours: 10:00am &#8211; 6:00pm<br \/>\nClosed: Sundays and October 31, but October 19(Sun.) open till 5 pm<br \/>\nOrganized by: Waseda University Library<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry_text\">This year, 2014, is the 200th anniversary of the publication of \u201c<i>Nans\u014d Satomi Hakkenden<\/i>(<i>The Tale of the Eight Dog-Heroes of the Satomi Clan<\/i>,1814-42)\u201d, the master-work of Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848), one of the best-known novelists of the Edo period. The library has held several exhibitions featuring \u201c<i>Hakkenden<\/i>\u201d or Bakin. In this exhibition, we focus on the famous Chinese novel, \u201c<i>Tales of the Water Margin<\/i> (<i>Suikoden<\/i> in Japanese)\u201d, one of the sources which inspired Bakin to write \u201c<i>Hakkenden<\/i>\u201d. &#8220;<i>Suikoden<\/i>&#8221; became popular among Japanese people during the Edo era, and appeared in various guises: introductions, translations, adaptations, plagiarism, parodies, and new creations. Exhibits of the Library&#8217;s primary sources introduce the variety of \u201c<i>Suikoden<\/i>\u201d\u2019s reception.<br \/>\nThe story of \u201c<i>Suikoden<\/i>\u201d begins with the release of 108 phantoms that had long been shut up in &#8216;Fukumaden,&#8217; sealed with supernatural power by a Taoist priest. Later, 108 heroes appear, suffer misfortunes, and roam about as outlaws, until gradually they all gather at \u2018Ry\u014dzanpaku\u2019, a fortress built at the water\u2019s edge. This dramatic story, in which many attractive characters are involved in fights, inspired Edo-period writers like Bakin and woodblock artists such as Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864), Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Their several works appeared like a shower of shooting stars and captured the hearts of people in Edo.<br \/>\nSuch is the surge of emotion produced by the drama of these episodes and the individuality of these heroes, as well as the urge to further creation that they inspired, that this work will by no means seem unfamiliar in present-day Japan.<br \/>\nWe hope that you will enjoy the world of \u201c<i>Suikoden<\/i>\u201d that bright shooting star of Edo literature.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Period \uff1a 2014\/10\/17\uff08Fri\uff09\uff5e2014\/11\/27\uff08Thu\uff09 Venue \uff1a Exhibition Room on the 2nd floor of the Center for Scholarly  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[123,82,134,128,125,124,127,126],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-centrallib-en","tag-events-en","tag-exhibitions-en","tag-highlights-en","tag-rikohlib-en","tag-takatalib-en","tag-tokorozawalib-en","tag-toyamalib-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}