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.
| ISBN: | 9780811201872 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 1969 |
| Author: | Saikaku Ihara |
| Publisher: | New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 403 pages |
| Series: | UNESCO Collection of Representative Literary Works |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
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.
The Life of an Amorous Woman features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
The Life of an Amorous Woman is available in Paperback
The Life of an Amorous Woman was written by Saikaku Ihara and published by New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions
The Life of an Amorous Woman has 403 pages
Yes it is part of UNESCO Collection of Representative Literary Works series