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Saikaku Ihara

Born

in Osaka, Japan

January 01, 1642

Died

September 09, 1693

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Gay and Lesbian

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Saikaku Ihara (井原西鶴) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

Born the son of the wealthy merchant Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五) in Osaka, he first studied haikai poetry under Matsunaga Teitoku, and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin School of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677, Saikaku is reported to have composed at least 16,000 haikai stanzas, with some rumors placing the number at over 23,500 stanzas.

Later in life he began writing racy accounts of the financial and amorous affairs of the merchant class and the ...more

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	Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan by Saikaku Ihara, William Theodore de Bary (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 1686	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings by Saikaku Ihara, Ivan Morris (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1686 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saikaku Ihara, E. Powys Mathers (Translator), Terence Barrow (Introduction) 3.63 avg rating — 333 ratings — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara, Paul Gordon Schalow (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1687 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of an Amorous Man by Saikaku Ihara, Kenji Hamada (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1682 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Scheming World by Saikaku Ihara, Masanori Takatsuka (Translator), David C. Stubbs (Translator) 3.33 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1692 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El gran espejo de amor entre hombres: Historias de actores by Saikaku Ihara, Carlos Rubio (Translator), Akiko Imoto (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Největší rozkošnice by Saikaku Ihara, Miroslav Novák (Translator) 3.40 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1686 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Histoire du tonnelier tombé amoureux 2.88 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	История любовных похождений одинокой женщины by Saikaku Ihara, Ихара Сайкаку 3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I borrow moonlight for this journey of a million miles.”
― Saikaku

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“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”
― Saikaku Ihara

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“When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy's unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the moon rising above a distant mountain. The boy's hair gleamed like the feathers of a raven perched silently on a tree, and his eyes were lovely as lotus flowers. One by one his other qualities became apparent, from his nightingale voice to his gentle disposition, as obedient and true as a plum blossom.”
― Saikaku Ihara, The Great Mirror of Male Love

tags: beauty, boy, delicate, ihara-saikaku, japan, japanese-litterature, lotus, love, male-love, moon, night, plum-blossom, pure, queer, raven, unadorned-beauty

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