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This article claims Hirayama Tōgo is Saikaku's father; but the article on Saikaku in the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (英文日本大事典, ISBN 4062099373) states as follows:
So which is correct? Was Hirayama Tōgo Saikaku's father, was he Saikaku himself (and if so, was he a wealthy merchant as the current article claims?), or was Saikaku perhaps originally Hirayama Tōgo Jr., son of Hirayama Tōgo? -- Cohen the Bavarian ( talk) 07:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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This article claims Hirayama Tōgo is Saikaku's father; but the article on Saikaku in the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (英文日本大事典, ISBN 4062099373) states as follows:
So which is correct? Was Hirayama Tōgo Saikaku's father, was he Saikaku himself (and if so, was he a wealthy merchant as the current article claims?), or was Saikaku perhaps originally Hirayama Tōgo Jr., son of Hirayama Tōgo? -- Cohen the Bavarian ( talk) 07:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
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ignored (
help): "Around the time of the Jōkyō and Genroku periods (1684-1703) there was a bourgeois (chōnin) named Hirayama Togo in the port of Osaka in Settsu province. He had wealth, but his wife died young, and his only child, a blind daughter, also died. He left the family business to his head assistant, and, without actually becoming a monk, he lived a life as free as that of a Buddhist mendicant, spending half of every year roaming wherever he pleased. He was possessed by haikai..."