| The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings Contributor(s): Saikaku, Ihara (Author), Morris, Ivan (Editor), Morris, Ivan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811201872 ISBN-13: 9780811201872 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1969 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.63 |
| LCCN: 63006505 |
| Series: UNESCO Collection of Contemporary Works |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.28" W x 7.9" (0.92 lbs) 403 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morris, Ivan: - "Ivan Ira Esme Morris (b. 1925 - d. 1976) was a British author, translator, editor, and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies."Morris, Ivan: - "Ivan Ira Esme Morris (b. 1925 - d. 1976) was a British author, translator, editor, and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies." |