[DeepL Translation - needs review] Rakugo by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who opened up new possibilities in the traditional art of storytelling during the transition from the Edo period to the Meiji period. The bottom of the book is "Meiji no Bungaku Vol. 3: Sanyutei Encho" [Chikuma Shobo, 2001]. A slightly dim-witted husband is told by his wife to return a handbasket to a neighbor's house, and he tries to do so, but he can't get along with the owner and screws up. The funny puns in...
We've got old kana, old kanji, and horrible formatting combined to make this tedious to read. It's rakugo and so I think better formatting of the text (each person's line being on a single line instead of jumbled together) would have helped.
I got some of the jokes but the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze for me.