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Ihara Saikaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ihara Saikaku (Japanese: 井原 西鶴; 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi). Born the son of the wealthy merchant Hirayama ...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Ihara Saikaku:poet and novelist, one of the most brilliant figures of the 17th-century revival of Japanese literature. He enchanted readers with racy accounts of the amorous and financial affairs of the merchant class and the demimonde. For a definition of "Ihara Saikaku",
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The boys loved each other to old age( NAGAME-TUZUKESHI-OIKI-NO-HANA-NO-KORO) from Comrade Loves of the Samurai( NANSYOKU-TAIKAN) by Saikaku IHARA PROFILE Saikaku Ihara is a poet and writer of popular fiction whose novels and stories are now ranked among the classics of Japanese literature.
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Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693): Saikaku, Ihara, The Great Mirror of Male Love (1990), trans. Paul Gordon Schalow PL794.N37E5 1990...
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More on Ihara Saikaku from Infoplease: Ihara Saikaku (ē'hä'rä sī'kä'kOO) [key], 1642–93, Japanese writer. Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse] poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing sequences of thousands of stanzas in a single sitting.
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Saikaku, Ihara, The Great Mirror of Male Love (1990), trans. Paul Gordon Schalow PL794.N37E5 1990...
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( ´hä´rä s ´kä´k ) (KEY) , 1642–93, Japanese writer. Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse] poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing sequences of thousands of stanzas in a single sitting.
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*1 Translator's Note: Throughout Saikaku's fiction the people of Kyoto, the capital, emerge as frugal and sensible in comparison to the extravagance of Edo townsmen--a point that is made in this story with the introduction of the flamboyant Edo theatergoer in paragraph three.
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Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: Iga ninja,Ihara Saikaku,Ikebana,Ikenobo school,Imagawa Yoshimoto,In-yo go-gyo setsu,Inari,Ink painting,Ino Tadataka,Insei alternative words: Saikaku Ihara, Saikaku, Iharasaikaku keywords: famous person, poesy, writer related topics: Edo period ,
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He was a man of many talents. Not only did he have a penchant for poetry, but he had a gift for writing edgy plays and novels with a radical flair. His name is Ihara Saikaku, and he was a 17th century Japanese writer known for taking risks in his works.
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