by Ihara Saikaku · Tuttle Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780804801843
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«Five Women Who Loved Love» is Ihara Saikaku's collection of amorous tales, published by Tuttle Publishing in paperback (264 pages, in English).
Originally published in 1686, the work brings together five stories of women living transgressive love affairs in Genroku-era Japan. Among them are a wife accused of adultery and a young woman willing to set fire to a city to see her beloved; the tone combines eroticism, irony, and a critical view of society.
English translation by William Theodore de Bary. Original title: Kōshoku gonin onna. The edition includes an essay by Richard Lane and seventeenth-century illustrations by Yoshida Hambei.
For readers interested in classical Japanese literature, short stories, and tales set in seventeenth-century Japan.
Ihara Saikaku was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).
