Narrative of a catastrophe
Musashi abumi and the Meireki fire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7837560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Kornicki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-361 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09555801003773695 |
| OpenAlex | W1998042474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Asai Ryōi's Musashi abumi (1661) deals with the catastrophic fire that devastated Edo in 1657. Interest has hitherto centred on the degree to which it is a factual record, but this has been at the expense of its literary features, particularly the anecdotal elements and the humour. In this article I focus on these peculiar narrative features, which it shares with other seventeenth-century disaster narratives, and seek to explain their origins and their meaning in a work which also contains harrowing accounts and illustrations of human suffering on a prodigious scale
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |