@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000357,
 author = {JOHNSON, Regine},
 journal = {Nichibunken Japan review : bulletin of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jan},
 note = {Tōrai Sanna was a gesaku writer who produced a small but impressive body of work.  He is best-known for his lively sharebon and kibyōshi, which appeared in the 1780s until the Kansei Reforms began to suppress books that could be seen as taking governmental efforts lightly.  This paper treats Sanna's first kibyōshi: Dai sen sekai kakine no soto (1784).  The text develops from a pun on the kabuki term sekai sadame, a meeting at which the sekai for a kabuki performance was chosen.  In this work, it is not only the kabuki sekai that is established, but also the physical world, and Sanna's textual world as well.  The text performs a version of Creation that includes the differentiation of chaos and order, heaven and earth, male and female, and of the Japanese mythos from the myths established in China and India.  Sanna is humorously entertaining throughout, but in typical chakashi fashion, he continually unmasks and masks his insights into larger philosophical issues.},
 pages = {83--97},
 title = {Tōrai Sanna and the Creation of Difference},
 volume = {7},
 year = {1996}
}