Japanese Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Era Otogi-zoshi, short prose fiction popular among a range of social...guides, essays, satires, and picaresque fiction. Ihara Saikaku was the foremost...important haiku poets. Later Edo fiction, called gesaku, was mostly comic...