戯作

ぎさく
げさく
cheap literature
fiction
writing for amusement

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げさく【戯作】

¶ → 戯作者

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ぎさく【戯作】

＝げさく².

II

げさく【戯作】

a light [popular, lowbrow] work of literature; 〔江戸後期の通俗小説の総称〕 the light literature of the later Edo period; the popular novel in the later Tokugawa period.

戯作者 a writer of cheap [popular] fiction; a popular novelist; a dime-novel writer; 〔江戸後期の通俗小説の作家〕 a writer of light literature in the latter part of the Edo period.