Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Name: Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
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ISBN: 9780811201872

ISBN-10: 0811201872

ISBN-13: 9780811201872

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Ihara Saikaku, Ivan Morris, Ivan Morris

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/17/1969
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 403
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English