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The ninjōbon (人情本) is a pre-modern Japanese literary genre. Novels focused on young love and were generally aimed to attract female readers. It is a sub-genre of gesaku and succeeds the earlier sharebon and kokkeibon genres.

The genre reached its peak in the 1830s. Much of this was due to works of Tamenaga Shunsui beginning with Shunshoku Umegoyomi in 1832.




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