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Emily Winfield Martin: IMG Kids' Q&A: Emily Winfield Martin

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Five Women Who Loved Love

by Ihara Saikaku

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Publisher Comments:

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

Synopsis:

First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan.

Synopsis:

Translation of an erotic novel first published in 1686 — describes the floating world of old Japan.
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About the Author

Saikaku Ihara (1641 - 93), novelist and poet, is credited with founding the genre called ukiyo-zoshi (books of the floating world), a type of popular fiction written between the 1680s and the 1770s. Once downgraded as vulgar, today Saikaku is acclaimed a great realist, largely because of his minute and accurate delineation of characters, customs, and events of his day.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780804801843
Subtitle:
Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
Author:
Saikaku, Ihara
Author:
De Bary, William Theodore
Author:
Ihara, Saikaku
Author:
de Bary, William Theodore
Publisher:
Tuttle Publishing
Subject:
General
Subject:
Translations into english
Subject:
Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
Subject:
English literature
Subject:
Japanese literature
Subject:
Translations from japanese
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Tuttle Classics
Publication Date:
19891215
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
8 x 5.13 in 11 oz
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First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan.
"Synopsis" by , Translation of an erotic novel first published in 1686 — describes the floating world of old Japan.
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