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Language: en
Pages: 238
Pages: 238
Type: BOOK - Published: 1964 - Publisher: Olympia Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 1963 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing
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.
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: CUP Archive
Language: en
Pages: 338
Pages: 338
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
One of the central literary texts of the Heian period (794-1185), Tales of Ise has inspired extensive commentary. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's
Language: en
Pages: 157
Pages: 157
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-07 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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.