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His stopover was a long awaited event: Ikku was a real celebrity and his love for the countryside in general, being himself a na- tive of Suruga.
The Tokaidochu Hizakurige, translated to A Shank's Mare Tour of the Tokaido, is a picaresque novel told in twelve parts.!
Jippensha Ikku Edit Profile
十返舎 一九重田 貞一
writer
Jippensha Ikku was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu, a Japanese writer active during the late Edo period of Japan.
Career
He lived primarily in Edo in the service of samurai, but also spent some time in Osaka as a townsman. He was among the most prolific yellow-backed novel (黄表紙, kibyōshi) writers of the late Edo period — between 1795 and 1801 he wrote a minimum of twenty novels a year, and thereafter wrote sharebon (洒落本), kokkeibon (滑稽本) and over 360 illustrated stories (合巻, gōkan).
Little is known of Jippensha Ikku"s adult life.
The following anecdotes are told about him.
He accepted poverty with good humor and, having no furniture, hung his bare walls with paintings of the furniture he might have had.
On holidays he sacrificed to the gods with pictures of excellent offerings.
Being presented with a bathtub in the common interest, he carried it home inverted on his head, and overthrew w