Narrative of a catastrophe:Musashi abumiand the Meireki fire

Peter Francis Kornicki

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Japanese History and Culture Narrative Theory and Analysis Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

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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.

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