Five Women Who Loved Love : Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan

de Bary, Wm. Theodore, Saikaku, Ihara

ISBN 10: 0804801843 / ISBN 13: 9780804801843

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's

popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

About the Author:

Saikaku Ihara (1641 – 93), novelist and poet, is credited with founding the genre called ukiyo-zoshi (books of the floating world), a type of popular

fiction written between the 1680s and the 1770s. Once downgraded as vulgar, today Saikaku is acclaimed a great realist, largely because of his minute

and accurate delineation of characters, customs, and events of his day.