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Life of an Amorous Man

Author : Saikaku Ihara
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462902014
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Life of an Amorous Man written by Saikaku Ihara and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : 井原西鶴
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201872
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Life of an Amorous Woman written by 井原西鶴 and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Donna George Storey
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611729009
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Amorous Woman written by Donna George Storey and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an American woman’s love affair with Japan and her intimate relationships with the many men and women she meets along the way. This modern reimagining of Ihara Saikaku’s bawdy 17th-century novel of the pleasure quarters, The Life of an Amorous Woman, offers a graphic, erotic tale that challenges everything we think we know about Japan.

This Scheming World

Author : Ihara Saikaku
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290260X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book This Scheming World written by Ihara Saikaku and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Ihara Saikaku
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462903002
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Five Women Who Loved Love written by Ihara Saikaku and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

In Praise of Older Women

Author : Stephen Vizinczey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226858869
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Older Women written by Stephen Vizinczey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-10-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A cool, comic survey of the sexual education of a young Hungarian, from his first encounter, as a twelve-year-old refugee with the American forces, to his unsatisfactory liaison with a reporter's wife in Canada at the belated end of his youth, when he was twenty-three . . . elegantly erotic, with masses of that indefinable quality, style . . . this has the real stuff of immortality."—B. A. Young, Punch "A pleasure. Vizinczey writes of women beautifully, with sympathy, tact and delight, and he writes about sex with more lucidity and grace than most writers ever acquire."—Larry McMurtry, Houston Post "Like James Joyce, who was as far from being a writer of erotica as Dostoevsky, Vizinczey has a refreshing message to deliver: Life is not about sex, sex is about life."—John Podhoretz, Washington Times "The gracefully written story of a young man growing up among older women . . . although some passages may well arouse the reader, this novel brims with what the courts have termed "redeeming literary merit."—Clarence Petersen, Chicago Tribune "A funny novel about sex, or rather (which is rarer) a novel which is funny as well as touching about sex . . . elegant, exact and melodious—has style, presence and individuality."—Isabel Quigly, Sunday Telegraph "The delicious adventures of a young Casanova who appreciates maturity while acquiring it himself. In turn naive, sophisticated, arrogant, disarming, the narrator woos his women and his tale wins the reader."—Polly Devlin, Vogue

A Monstrous Regiment of Women

Author : Laurie R. King
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429936525
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Monstrous Regiment of Women written by Laurie R. King and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last, with a passion for divinity and detective work, her most baffling mystery may now involve Holmes and the burgeoning of a deeper affection between herself and the retired detective. Russell's attentions turn to the New Temple of God and its leader, Margery Childe, a charismatic suffragette and a mystic, whose draw on the young theology scholar is irresistible. But when four bluestockings from the Temple turn up dead shortly after changing their wills, could sins of a capital nature be afoot? Holmes and Russell investigate, as their partnership takes a surprising turn in A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King.

Comrade Loves of the Samurai

Author : Ihara Saikaku
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900437
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Comrade Loves of the Samurai written by Ihara Saikaku and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored. To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible. The sons of samurai families were urged to form homosexual alliances while youth lasted, and often these loves matured into lifelong companionships. Saikaku describes Japanese love scenes of all kinds with a frankness that has made him a favorite with expurgators, but he discusses different types of love with tenderness and compassion. The Songs of the Geisha included in this volume is a collection of geisha folk songs composed to be sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen. All of the songs have a charmingly nostalgic quality which fitted well with the time and the circumstances for which they were composed. They are intimately personal, expressing the feelings of the geisha towards their sympathetic listeners. Love, frustration, and the futility of hope are their main themes. These lyrics, for all their erotic symbolism, are restrained and tactful, and their erotic beauty must be felt rather than heard. Both books were originally privately published in London in 1928 as a two volume set entitled Eastern Love.

Five Women who Loved Love

Author : Ihara Saikaku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Five Women who Loved Love written by Ihara Saikaku and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Woman of Uncertain Character

Author : Clancy Sigal
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780786717484
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Uncertain Character written by Clancy Sigal and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's boyhood in Depression-era Chicago, then James Farrell and Nelson Algren territory. The author recounts his intense relationship with his mother Jennie, a sometime firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rival

Too Much and Not the Mood

Author : Durga Chew-Bose
Publisher : FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374535957
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Too Much and Not the Mood written by Durga Chew-Bose and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying. The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Inspired by Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Lydia Davis's short prose, and Vivian Gornick's exploration of interior life, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression. Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today.

The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised

Author : Saikaku Ihara
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Family Storehouse, Or, The Millionaires' Gospel Modernised written by Saikaku Ihara and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1969 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549237
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, The Pillow Book is an intimate look at the experiences and outlook of the Heian upper class, further enriched by Ivan Morris's extensive notes and critical contextualization.

Picturing the Floating World

Author : Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824889339
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Floating World written by Julie Nelson Davis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we think of ukiyo-e—“the pictures of the floating world”—as masterpieces of Japanese art, highly prized throughout the world. Yet it is often said that ukiyo-e were little appreciated in their own time and were even used as packing material for ceramics. In Picturing the Floating World, Julie Nelson Davis debunks this myth and demonstrates that ukiyo-e was thoroughly appreciated as a field of artistic production, worthy of connoisseurship and canonization by its contemporaries. Putting these images back into their dynamic context, she shows how consumers, critics, and makers produced and sold, appraised and collected, and described and recorded ukiyo-e. She recovers this multilayered world of pictures in which some were made for a commercial market, backed by savvy entrepreneurs looking for new ways to make a profit, while others were produced for private coteries and high-ranking connoisseurs seeking to enrich their cultural capital. The book opens with an analysis of period documents to establish the terms of appraisal brought to ukiyo-e in late eighteenth-century Japan, mapping the evolution of the genre from a century earlier and the development of its typologies and the creation of a canon of makers—both of which have defined the field ever since. Organized around divisions of major technological and aesthetic developments, the book reveals how artistic practice and commercial enterprise were intertwined throughout ukiyo-e’s history, from its earliest imagery through the twentieth century. The depiction of particular subjects in and for the floating world of urban Edo and the process of negotiating this within the larger field of publishing are examined to further ground ukiyo-e as material culture, as commodities in a mercantile economy. Picturing the Floating World offers a new approach: a critical yet accessible analysis of the genre as it was developed in its social, cultural, and political milieu. The book introduces students, collectors, and enthusiasts to ukiyo-e as a genre under construction in its own time while contributing to our understanding of early modern visual production.

Comrade Loves of the Samurai

Author : Saikaku Ihara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Comrade Loves of the Samurai written by Saikaku Ihara and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amorous Initiation

Author : O. V. de L. Milosz
Publisher : Inner Traditions
ISBN 13 : 9780892814183
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Amorous Initiation written by O. V. de L. Milosz and published by Inner Traditions. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count Pinamonte tells the narrator, a Danish nobleman, how a failed love affair led him to search for the spiritual meaning of love

Life of an Amorous Man, The

Author : Ihara, S.
Publisher : Olympia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of an Amorous Man, The written by Ihara, S. and published by Olympia Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1682, The Life of an Amorous Man depicts the pursuits and follies of the most glorious age of Japan, when wealthy commoners could rise above the warrior caste and indulge in the free and easy life of Japan's pleasure houses. The hero, Yonosuke, whose name means "Man of the World", is followed from his precocious childhood to the close of his amatory career. His erotic escapades are chronicled, always with frankness and often with pathos. The character sketches of the women (and sometimes men) with whom he dallied are vividly portrayed.