戯作

げさく

Also written ぎさく

Meanings

1. Noun cheap literature; writing for amusement
2. light literature popular in the late Edo period

Kanji

• 戯 frolic. Read as ゲ.
• 作 make. Read as サク.

Words containing 戯作

• 戯作者 (げさくしゃ) fiction writer
• 戯作三昧 (げさくざんまい) being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fiction)
• 戯作三昧 (げさくざんまい) Absorbed in Letters (novel by Akutagawa)

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