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和綴じ本レプリカ「身体開帳略縁起」上・中・下意訳付き／The Household Buddha Tsutaya Jūzaburō’s Final Kibyōshi

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発送予定：2026年6月22日から順次発送

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物語の内容がわかる意訳を付けてあります。

『身体開帳略縁起』は、蔦屋重三郎が晩年に手がけた黄表紙です。寺の「御開帳」をもじり、家業を守る「家業如来」、先祖を祀る「先祖菩薩」、帳面や所帯道具をありがたい霊宝に見立てながら、酒、遊里、借金、見栄を笑いと皮肉で戒めます。

寛政の出版取締りで財産を没収され、脚気に苦しんだ晩年の蔦重。それでも彼は、最後まで出版人として筆と商いを手放しませんでした。

本作には、苦境の中でも洒落を忘れず、本を売り、本で世を笑わせる蔦重の誇りがにじんでいます。江戸のユーモアと生活の知恵、そして一人の出版人の執念が詰まった、まさに“所帯仏法”の黄表紙です。

Includes a separate interpretive translation to help you follow the story.

A final work imbued with the pride of Tsutaya Jūzaburō.
Shintai Kaichō Ryaku Engi is a late-period kibyōshi associated with Tsutaya Jūzaburō. Taking the form of a temple “public unveiling” of sacred icons, the work playfully transforms household life into a comic religion: the family business becomes the “Tathāgata of Livelihood,” the ancestors become revered bodhisattvas, and account books and everyday tools are treated as sacred treasures. Through wit, satire, and Edo-period wordplay, it warns against drinking, pleasure quarters, debt, vanity, and reckless spending.

In his final years, Tsutaya suffered from beriberi and endured harsh punishment under the Kansei-era publishing restrictions, including the confiscation of much of his property. Even so, he never abandoned his pride as a publisher.

This work carries the spirit of a man who, even in hardship, continued to sell books, make books, and laugh through books. Filled with Edo humor, practical wisdom, and the stubborn dignity of a publisher to the very end, Shintai Kaichō Ryaku Engi is a remarkable example of comic “household Buddhism” in yellow-cover fiction.