The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Ihara Saikaku

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Ihara Saikaku

One of the great fiction 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 again 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 streetwalker. Ivan Morris, chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures of Columbia University has done a brilliant translation, an introduction, extensive notes, bibliography and two essays on social customs of the period.

Ivan Ira Esme Morris (b. 1925 - d. 1976) was a British author, translator, editor, and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies. Ivan Ira Esme Morris (b. 1925 - d. 1976) was a British author, translator, editor, and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies.

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ISBN 13	9780811201872
ISBN 10	0811201872
Titel	The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
Autor	Ihara Saikaku
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsjahr	1969-02-01
Seitenanzahl	403
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