Nippon Eitaigura
E419139
Nippon Eitaigura is a late 17th-century Japanese ukiyo-zōshi story collection by Ihara Saikaku that vividly portrays the lives and fortunes of Osaka merchants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nippon Eitaigura canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4138555 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nippon Eitaigura Context triple: [Ihara Saikaku, notableWork, Nippon Eitaigura]
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A.
Nihon Minshutō
Nihon Minshutō was a conservative political party in Japan that existed in the mid-1950s and played a key role in the formation of the modern Liberal Democratic Party.
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B.
Yamato polity
The Yamato polity was an early Japanese state centered in the Yamato region that unified local clans under a ruling dynasty and laid the foundations for the imperial institution.
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C.
Japo
Japo is a small settlement located on Arno Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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D.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
Kokusai
Kokusai was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer known for producing military and transport planes before and during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nippon Eitaigura Target entity description: Nippon Eitaigura is a late 17th-century Japanese ukiyo-zōshi story collection by Ihara Saikaku that vividly portrays the lives and fortunes of Osaka merchants.
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A.
Nihon Minshutō
Nihon Minshutō was a conservative political party in Japan that existed in the mid-1950s and played a key role in the formation of the modern Liberal Democratic Party.
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B.
Yamato polity
The Yamato polity was an early Japanese state centered in the Yamato region that unified local clans under a ruling dynasty and laid the foundations for the imperial institution.
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C.
Japo
Japo is a small settlement located on Arno Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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D.
Higashi Shina Kai
Higashi Shina Kai is the Japanese name for the East China Sea, a marginal sea located between China, Japan, Taiwan, and the Korean Peninsula.
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E.
Kokusai
Kokusai was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer known for producing military and transport planes before and during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese literary work
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short story collection ⓘ ukiyo-zōshi ⓘ |
| approximatePublicationTime | late 17th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Osaka merchant class
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chōnin culture ⓘ |
| author | Ihara Saikaku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsTo | early modern Japanese popular literature ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Japanese early modern urban culture ⓘ |
| depicts |
merchant life in Osaka
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urban commoner society in the Edo period ⓘ |
| genre |
early modern Japanese prose
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ukiyo-zōshi ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | important example of merchant-focused ukiyo-zōshi ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFocus |
economic success and failure of merchants
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moral lessons about money and fortune ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | sympathetic view of merchant class ⓘ |
| hasStyle | realistic depiction of everyday life ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
commercial ethics
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instability of fortune ⓘ social status of merchants ⓘ wealth and morality ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early Edo-period commercial expansion ⓘ |
| influenced | later depictions of merchants in Japanese literature ⓘ |
| language | Japanese ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | ukiyo-zōshi movement ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Edo period ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Japanese vernacular fiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Osaka merchants ⓘ |
| medium | printed book ⓘ |
| partOf | Ihara Saikaku’s merchant fiction ⓘ |
| portrays |
fortunes of Osaka merchants
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lives of Osaka merchants ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Osaka ONNED1 ⓘ |
| targetAudience | urban commoners ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Edo period urban life ⓘ |
| writtenInScript | Japanese kana–kanji mixed script ⓘ |
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Subject: Nippon Eitaigura Description of subject: Nippon Eitaigura is a late 17th-century Japanese ukiyo-zōshi story collection by Ihara Saikaku that vividly portrays the lives and fortunes of Osaka merchants.
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