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100			_aSaikaku, Lhara.
245			_aThe life of an a armorous woman.
260			_aNew York : _bNew directions publishing corporation, _c1963.
300			_axiii, 402 p. : _bill. ; _c20 cm.
504			_aInclude index
520			_aOne 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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