Quotes from Takizawa Bakin's books, and about them
Gesaku Zanmai on Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki: “On this desk he had written Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki and Nanka no Yume, and now he was writing the Nansō Satomi Hakkenden. All his writing tools had long been familiar with the pain of his creative labor. [auto-translated]”
Vita Sexualis on Kinpeibai: “One day I saw a Chinese-bound book peeking out from under the master's desk, and it was the Jin Ping Mei. I had read only Bakin's Kinpeibai, but I knew the Chinese edition of the Jin Ping Mei was very different, and I thought: this master is a man one can't let one's guard down around. [auto-translated]”
Arrowroot on Kyōkakuden: “Bakin is said to have an unfinished work called Kyokakuden. I have not read it, but I hear it centers on an imaginary Kusunoki daughter, so it seems unrelated to the deeds of King Jiten. [auto-translated]”
Gesaku Zanmai on Matsuzome Jōshi Akinonanakusa: “Because he can't write Osome and Hisamatsu as plain Osome and Hisamatsu, he calls it Matsuzome Jōshi Akinonanakusa. [auto-translated]”
I Am a Cat on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden: “To expect more than that is an unreasonable demand, one that could be counted on only when Shino and Kobungo step out of Bakin's novel and the Nansō Satomi Hakkenden moves in next door. [auto-translated]”
Dogra Magra on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden: “A young man who can calmly answer whether that girl is beautiful is either a worn-out playboy or a descendant of the impotent men who appear in Nansō Satomi Hakkenden and the Water Margin. [auto-translated]”
The Golden Demon on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden: “It may sound like a novel, but Miya's feeling ought to be that of Hamaji in Nanso Satomi Hakkenden, slipping out late at night past her parents' eyes to see Shino, who leaves tomorrow morning. How strange: my own circumstances resemble Shino's too, parted from my parents in childhood, raised in the Shigisawa house, betrothed to their… [auto-translated]”
Grass on the Wayside on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden: “"He must be a scholar, that man, mustn't he? Which of them is better, him or Kyokutei Bakin? I own Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden too, you know." Sure enough, in his paulownia bookcase he had a neat stack of the subscription edition of the Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, printed in movable type on Japanese paper. [auto-translated]”
Gesaku Zanmai on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden: “The Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, Master, grows ever more wondrous with each volume, and it is splendidly done. Funamushi disguising herself as a blind woman to try to kill Kobungo, and then, once seized and tortured, the rescue by Sōsuke: that sequence is simply beyond words. [auto-translated]”
Gesaku Zanmai on Sanshichi Zenden Nanka no Yume: “On this desk he had written Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki and Nanka no Yume, and now he was writing the Nansō Satomi Hakkenden. All his writing tools had long been familiar with the pain of his creative labor. [auto-translated]”