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The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Saikaku Ihara

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One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature is her constant undoing, ranges over all of 17th-century Japanese life. The narrator is successively wife, court lady, courtesan, priest's concubine, mistress of a feudal lord and a streetwalker. Ivan Morris, chairman of the Department of East Asian Studies and Cultures of Columbia University has done a brilliant translation, an introduction, extensive notes, bibliography and two essays on social customs of the period. Illustrated.

"The fine style of the writing and the clear outlines of illustrations which are not even remotely 'suggestive' give Saikaku's pornography grace adn wit and charity." — James Kirkup

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Pages:: 402 pages

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Edition:: 3rd Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0811201872

ISBN13:: 9780811201872

kindle Asin:: B000RAW9N4

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Saikaku Ihara

3.59/5 (319 ratings)

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[From back.]
One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature is her constant undoing, ranges over all of 17th-century Japanese life. The narrator is successively wife, court lady, courtesan, priest's concubine, mistress of a feudal lord and a streetwalker. Ivan Morris, chairman of the Department of East Asian Studies and Cultures of Columbia University has done a brilliant translation, an introduction, extensive notes, bibliography and two essays on social customs of the period. Illustrated.

"The fine style of the writing and the clear outlines of illustrations which are not even remotely 'suggestive' give Saikaku's pornography grace adn wit and charity." — James Kirkup

Format:

Pages:: 402 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 3rd Printing

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0811201872

ISBN13:: 9780811201872

kindle Asin:: B000RAW9N4

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