thumb|From Otsuriki (1810) by Jippensha Ikku, a book about how to make shadow pictures The was a genre and type of early modern Japanese novel. It came into being late in the Edo period during the 19th century. As a genre, it depicted the comical behavior occurring in commoners' daily lives.
thumb|From Otsuriki (1810) by Jippensha Ikku, a book about how to make shadow pictures The was a genre and type of early modern Japanese novel. It came into being late in the Edo period during the 19th century. As a genre, it depicted the comical behavior occurring in commoners' daily lives.
The kokkeibon genre is the successor of the dangibon genre. Jippensha Ikku's Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (1802–1822) is identified as the first representative novel. A less strict definition includes the dangibon as an "early kokkeibon".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).