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This Scheming World
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Ihara Saikaku
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-20 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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This classic work of Japanese literature is considered the masterpiece of Japanese novelist Seken Munasanya. This Scheming World (Seken Munasanyo) was published
The Life of an Amorous Woman
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: 井原西鶴
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1963 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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Ihara Saikaku "wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world -- the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status."--Back cover.
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Ihara Saikaku
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-07 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored. To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible.
Five Women Who Loved Love
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: 井原西鶴
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1956 - Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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First published in 1686, Five Women Who Loved Love was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan.
The Writing Circle
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Corinne Demas
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-06 - Publisher: Hachette Books

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They call themselves the Leopardi Circle -- six members of a writing group who share much more than their works in progress. When Nancy, whose most recently pub