Comrade Loves of the Samurai: Songs of the Geishas (English, French and Japanese Edition)

History

Ihara, Saikaku

Mathers, E. Powys

Asia

Tuttle Pub

<p><strong>“The fine style of writing and the clear outlines of illustration, which are not even remotely ‘suggestive’ give Saikaku’s pornography grace and wit and charity.” ―James Kirkup</strong></p> 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.

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

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

New Directions

Tales of Japanese Justice (Asian Studies at Hawaii)

University Press of Hawaii

Gay Tales of the Samurai

E. Powys Mathers

Henry M. Christman

Alamo Square Dist Inc

Cinq amoureuses

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Gallimard]

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