Five Women Who Loved Love
Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
$24.92
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2017
Summary
First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan. And the novel’s popularity has, if anything, increased with the years, making it today a classic like Boccaccio’s Decameron or the writings of Rabelais.
The book follows five determined women in their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. The five heroines are Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love by the age of sixteen; Os…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9784805310120 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 480531012X |
| Author: | Ihara Saikaku, Wm. Theodore de Bary |
| Publisher: | Tuttle Publishing |
| Imprint: | Tuttle Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Tuttle Classics |
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“Five charming novellas…which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth.” – The New Yorker
“Five charming novellas … which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth.” –The New Yorker
About The Author
Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku (1641-1693) has been called “the greatest popular Japanese novelist of the 17th century.” Also a poet, Saikaku founded the ukiyo-zoshi (books of the floating world) genre, which flourished between the 1680s and the 1770s.
Wm. Theodore de Bary (born August 9, 1919), is an American sinologist and East Asian literature scholar who has edited numerous books relating to primarily Japanese and Chinese literature, history and culture. He is recognized as essentially creating the field of Neo-Confucian studies.
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