The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings (UNESCO Collection of Representative Literary Works)

Ihara Saikaku

ISBN 10: 0811201872 / ISBN 13: 9780811201872

Published by New Directions, 1969

Seller Inventory # 0811201872-3-36590284

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Ivan Ira Esme Morris (b. 1925 - d. 1976) was a British author, translator, editor, and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other ...
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good