Life of an Amorous Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life of an Amorous Man write by Ihara Saikaku. This book was released on 2011-09-13. Life of an Amorous Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1682, The Life of an Amorous Man depicts the pursuits and follies of the glorious age of old Japan, when the new bourgeoisie, unfettered by the societal constraints of the traditional aristocracy, indulged in the free and easy life of Japan’s celebrated pleasure houses. The hero of this fascinating novel is a composite of the many daijin (men of wealth) who spent their time in these flourishing establishments. The novel follows the hero, Yonosuke, or “Man of the World,” from precocious childhood to the close of his amatory career. Along the way, Saikaku exploits the full gamut of his sexual indulgence, always the frankness, often with humor, and occasionally with pathos — chronicling the erotic escapades of his hero and providing vivid character sketches of the women (and sometimes men) with whom Yonosuke dallied.
The Life of an Amorous Woman
The Life of an Amorous Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of an Amorous Woman write by 井原西鶴. This book was released on 1963. The Life of an Amorous Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ihara Saikaku "wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world -- the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status."--Back cover.
Amorous Woman
Amorous Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amorous Woman write by Donna Storey. This book was released on 2012-08-13. Amorous Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An American woman's sexual awakening in Japan, testing the limits of love and sensual pleasure
This Scheming World
This Scheming World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Scheming World write by Ihara Saikaku. This book was released on 2011-12-20. This Scheming World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic work of Japanese literature is considered the masterpiece of Japanese novelist Seken Munasanya. This Scheming World (Seken Munasanyo) was published in 1692, one year before the author’s death. It represents the culmination of Saikaku’s perceptive genius, and in structure, is one of the most consolidated of all his works. Most of the stories are told as incidents or episodes relating to New Year’s Eve, when in those days it was the custom to balance all debits and credits for the year. Saikaku portrays his characters with so lifelike a touch that, even though three centuries have passed since his time, it seems as if they were our contemporaries. Decidedly inclined towards the debtors, Saikaku has them slipping off to the homes of their favorite mistresses, leaving town on “sudden” business trips, or becoming actors for the day in order to deceive the ever–persistent year–end collectors. Some of his characters are successful, while some are beset by even more troubles in trying to avoid the collectors. The episodes are always frank, often with humor, and occasionally pathetic. But more than anything else, the seventeenth century day–to–day way of living by the commoners comes vividly to life.
Five Women Who Loved Love
Five Women Who Loved Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Women Who Loved Love write by Ihara Saikaku. This book was released on 1989-12-15. Five Women Who Loved Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Five charming novellas … which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth."-- The New Yorker First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas by Ihara Saikaku was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world of Genroku Japan. The book's popularity has only increased with age, making it a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais. Each of the five stories follows a determined woman on her quest for amorous adventure: The Story of Seijuro in Himeji -- Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love the tender age of sixteen. The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love -- Osen, a faithful wife until unjustly accused of adultery. What the Seasons Brought the Almanac Maker-- Osan, a Kyoto beauty who falls asleep in the wrong bed. The Greengrocer's Daughter with a Bundle of Love -- Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover. Gengobei, the Mountain of Love -- Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections. But the book is more than a collection of skillfully told erotic tales, for "Saikaku …could not delve into the inmost secrets of human life only to expose them to ridicule or snickering prurience. Obviously fascinated by the variety and complexity of human love, but always retaining a sense of its intrinsic dignity … he is both a discriminating and compassionate judge of his fellow man." Saikaku's style, as allusive as it is witty, is a challenge that few translators have dared to face, and certainly never before with the success here. Accentuated by gorgeous 17th-century illustrations. Theodore de Bary's translation manages to recapture the heady flavor of the original in this sumptuous collection of romantic tales.
