"Boston, Vermont, Tokyo": Charles E. Tuttle Company. 1981. "233pp., intro., illustrations by Masakuza Kuwata, trans. by Kengi Hamada. The first novel by one of the great erotic fiction writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1642-93). Ihara's main character is a composite of the men of wealth who spent their time in Japan's flourishing pleasure districts. Although the novel explores the full gamut of sexual indulgences - always with frankness, often with humor, and occasionally with pathos - Ihara's vivid character sketches make him an early novelist of note, blending realism with what in Europe would be called the picaresque." . (more information)

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