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Title
Five Women Who Loved Love - Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
Five Women Who Loved Love - Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan
Author
Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20170614
20170614
Description
"Five charming novellas
which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker
First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's popularity has only increased with age, making it a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.
Each of the five stories follows a determined woman on her quest for amorous adventure:
The Story of Seijuro in Himeji
Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love the tender age of sixteen.
The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love
Osen, a faithful wife until unjustly accused of adultery.
What the Seasons Brought the Almanac Maker Osan, a Kyoto beauty who falls asleep in the wrong bed.
The Greengrocer's Daughter with a Bundle of Love
Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover.
Gengobei, the Mountain of Love
Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections.
But the book is more than a collection of skillfully told erotic tales, for "Saikaku could not delve into the inmost secrets of human life only to expose them to ridicule or snickering prurience. Obviously fascinated by the variety and complexity of human love, but always retaining a sense of its intrinsic dignity
he is both a discriminating and compassionate judge of his fellow man."
Saikaku's style, as allusive as it is witty, is a challenge that few translators have dared to face, and certainly never before with the success here. Accentuated by gorgeous 17th-century illustrations. Theodore de Bary's translation manages to recapture the heady flavor of the original in this sumptuous collection of romantic tales.
which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New Yorker
First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's popularity has only increased with age, making it a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.
Each of the five stories follows a determined woman on her quest for amorous adventure:
Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love the tender age of sixteen.
Osen, a faithful wife until unjustly accused of adultery.
Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover.
Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections.
But the book is more than a collection of skillfully told erotic tales, for "Saikaku could not delve into the inmost secrets of human life only to expose them to ridicule or snickering prurience. Obviously fascinated by the variety and complexity of human love, but always retaining a sense of its intrinsic dignity
he is both a discriminating and compassionate judge of his fellow man."
Saikaku's style, as allusive as it is witty, is a challenge that few translators have dared to face, and certainly never before with the success here. Accentuated by gorgeous 17th-century illustrations. Theodore de Bary's translation manages to recapture the heady flavor of the original in this sumptuous collection of romantic tales.
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