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Samuraĭ vysokogo ranga Takėbė Ai͡atari (1719-1774) i priemnyĭ syn v kupecheskoĭ semʹe Uėda Akinari (1734-1809) pri zhizni byli svi͡azany otnoshenii͡ami uchiteli͡a i talantlivogo uchenika, poroĭ perekhodi͡ashchimi v sopernichestvo. I v istorii i͡aponskoĭ literatury ikh imena stoi͡at v odnom ri͡adu kak imena zachinateleĭ novogo zhanra povestvovatelʹnoĭ khudozhestvennoĭ prozy - ëmikhon. Sbornik "Skazki vesennego dozhdi͡a" Akinari sostavili novelly istoricheskogo, fantasticheskogo i avanti͡urnogo kharaktera, a "Povestʹ Zapadnykh gor" Ai͡atari - ėto istorii͡a o li͡ubvi i samuraĭskom dolge, osnovannai͡a na realʹnykh sobytii͡akh krovavoĭ dramy, razygravsheĭsi͡a v derevne nepodaleku ot Kioto. Izdanie ukrashai͡ut risunki Takėbė Ai͡atari, kotoryĭ byl talantlivym khudozhnikom.

Takebe Ayatari (1719-1774), a high-ranking samurai, and the adopted son of Ueda Akinari (1734-1809), a merchant family, were linked during their lifetime by the relationship of a teacher and a talented student, sometimes turning into rivalry. And in the history of Japanese literature, their names stand in the same row as the names of the initiators of a new genre of narrative fiction — yomihon. Akinari's collection Tales of the Spring Rain includes short stories of a historical, fantastic and adventurous nature, and Ayatari's Tale of the Western Mountains is a story about love and samurai duty, based on the real events of a bloody drama that took place in a village near Kyoto. The publication is decorated with drawings by Takebe Ayatari, who was a talented artist.