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Kyokutei Bakin

Died in 1848

Takizawa Okikuni was born on 4 July 1767 in Edo, into a family of low-ranking samurai. Orphaned of his father in 1775, he left his lord's service and lived on various jobs before obtaining, in 1790, the protection of an author of illustrated booklets in vogue in Edo. Married to the widow of a merchant, he signed Kyokutei Bakin and was one of the first writers in Japan to live off his manuscripts. Having gone blind, he dictated his last texts to his daughter-in-law Michi, and died in Edo on 1 December 1848.

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