gesaku

Situated designation

Treat an attribution to gesaku as a sourced assertion whose date and intended meaning remain visible.

1. Does this source use gesaku as an umbrella category, a literary practice, or another explicitly defined sense? definition
2. Who applied the designation, when, and to which work or body of writing? provenance

Qualified form membership

A scholarly account includes yomihon, sharebon, kokkeibon, ninjōbon, and kusazōshi under gesaku; record the authority for each proposed relationship. [Chuo University](https://www.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/features/2019/02/60021/)

1. Which constituent form is assigned to the candidate, and what evidence connects that form to gesaku? boundary
2. Do competing classifications describe different aspects of the same work or disagree about its membership? boundary

Passage-grounded effects

Record comic, sentimental, satirical, or didactic effects through passages and contextual evidence rather than imposing one tone on the category.

1. Which passages support the proposed literary effect, and whose voice produces it? provenance
2. What distinctions of speech or register must an annotation preserve to make that effect intelligible? action

Recoverable reference

A proposed parody or allusion should identify its target and evidence, with unresolved readings retained as hypotheses.

1. Which earlier text, performance, convention, or social practice is being invoked, and who supports that identification? provenance
2. What contextual explanation is needed before an agent paraphrases or translates the passage? action

Visual evidence dependency

Richly illustrated kibyōshi and gōkan occur within accounts of gesaku; visual dependence must be assessed for the particular work. [University of Tokyo](https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/biblioplaza/en/D_00062.html)

1. Which narrative information or joke depends on an image, caption position, or page sequence? boundary
2. Does the available reproduction preserve the pages and image detail needed to support that interpretation? measurement

Witness completeness

Record missing leaves, volumes, or installments before using a surviving witness to characterise a work's narrative or presentation.

1. Which volumes, installments, and leaves are present relative to the bibliographically documented sequence? measurement
2. Do differences between witnesses reflect an edition change, incomplete survival, or an unresolved cause? boundary

Role-specific attribution

Distinguish writing, illustration, and publishing credits, including pseudonymous or uncertain attributions; separate intended readership from documented readers.

1. Which preface, colophon, signature, or scholarly attribution establishes each contributor's role and name? provenance
2. What evidence supports claims about intended or actual readers rather than assuming one uniform gesaku audience? provenance

Documented intervention

Research on gesaku publishing examines regulation and author responses during the Kansei reforms, Bunka era, and Tenpō reforms; individual intervention claims still require direct support. [University of Tokyo](https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/biblioplaza/en/D_00062.html)

1. Which dated evidence connects a restriction, sanction, or revision to this particular work or contributor? provenance
2. Can a textual change be attributed to regulation, or must commercial revision and other explanations remain open? boundary

Mediation disclosure

Record modernised spelling, supplied punctuation, abridgment, translated wordplay, and omitted illustrations where relevant to a proposed interpretation.

1. Which historical witness underlies this edition or translation, and what interventions does its editor disclose? provenance
2. Must an agent consult page images or another edition before analysing dialogue, wordplay, or text-image relationships? action

Resource-specific reuse

Assess reuse against the identified historical work, modern translation, editorial contribution, or digital reproduction; the category gesaku itself supplies no permission.

1. Is the proposed reuse of historical wording, an illustration, a modern translation, editorial notes, or a repository scan? boundary
2. Which applicable rights information and access terms support the proposed reproduction, distribution, or transformation? action

Check these first

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these check these first hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Kinds and varieties

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Regional variation

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of gesaku this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance