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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Saikaku, Ihara
Morris, Ivan
Morris, Ivan

Paperback

Series: UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0811201872
ISBN13: 9780811201872
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jan 17 1969
Pages: 403
Weight: 0.92
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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