The life of an amorous woman, and other writings
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The life of an amorous woman, and other writings
（Unesco collection of representative literary works）（A New Directions paperbook, 270）
New Directions, 1969, c1963
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好色一代女
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Translation of: 好色一代女
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 of the period.
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