@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002137,
 author = {高橋, 則子 and TAKAHASHI, Noriko},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {12},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, Coxinga (1624-62) who tried to restore the Ming empire, had a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. Chikamatsu Monzaemon used his life story as the basis of the Joruri play The Battles of Coxinga first performed in 1715 , it was a great success, running for more than 17 months and was soon playing in Kabuki as well.
In the mid-eighteenth century kurohon (black-cover books) and aohon (blue-cover books) were popular as simple picture books for general readers. They told stories of legends as well as used material from Joruri and Kabuki theatre. These genre have not been studied much until recently when some modern editions have been printed.
The Kurohon The Battles of Coxinga (pictures by Torii Kiyomitsu, published in the 1750s- 1760s) is a digest of act two of the original play. However, when we compare it with the picture book (ehon) Battles of Coxinga (dates?, in Tokyo Univ. Main Library) and the Joruri ezukushi (picture book) Battles of Coxinga (dates?, reprinted in Nihon shomin bunka shiryo shusei, Vol.7) , there are some important differences. Through this comparison I analyse the particular characteristies of the kurohon genre.
Finally, I compare the Coxinga legend across several genre of popular picture books in 18th century Japan.},
 pages = {121--129},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　黒本・青本と浄瑠璃絵尽し本　―黒本「こく性や合戦」をめぐって―},
 year = {1989},
 yomi = {タカハシ, ノリコ}
}