Great Mirror of Male Love

Great Mirror of Male Love - Paperback

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Great Mirror of Male Love - Paperback

Great Mirror of Male Love - Paperback

by Ihara Saikaku
$40.32
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Book Overview

The first complete translation of Nanshoku ōkagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), this is a collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys, and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons. The book is illustrated with 50 woodblocks, prepared for the original printing of Nanshoku ōkagami.

Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translating of Japanese Literature.

Back Jacket

A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures.--Journal of Japanese Studies
ISBN9780804718950
Author Ihara Saikaku
PublisherStanford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 1991
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Ihara Saikaku (1641-1693) was Japan's first popular novelist. He was a successful merchant in the up-and-coming city of Osaka. The tragedy of losing his wife and daughter moved him to abandon his business and become an itinerant Buddhist monk who composed haiku verses and erotic tales. Saikaku founded the ukiyo-zoshi (floating world) genre of fiction, which flourished between the 1680s and the 1770s.

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