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Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 –
September 9, 1693) was a ****anese poet and
creator of the "floating world"
genre of ****anese
prose (ukiyo-zōshi). Born as...
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Munakata Saikaku (宗像 才鶴) was a ****anese
female samurai warlord,
aristocrat and onna-musha of the
Sengoku period. She was the wife of
Munakata Ujisada...
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Saikaku is a
crater on Mercury. Its name was
adopted by the
International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1979. The
crater is
named for ****anese poet Ihara...
- The Life of
Oharu (西鶴一代女,
Saikaku ichidai onna, lit. "
Saikaku: Life of a woman") is a 1952 ****anese
historical drama film
directed by
Kenji Mizoguchi...
- period, the
ningyo was made the
subject of
burlesque gesaku novels (cf. §
Saikaku, 1687 and Santō Kyōden's §Hakoiri musume, 1791).
There were also preserved...
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artists at the time. The most
prominent author of ukiyo-zōshi was
Ihara Saikaku,
whose works were not
regarded as high
literature at the time, but became...
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guardian deities of nanshoku" (male–male love). Tokugawa-era
writer Ihara Saikaku joked that
since there are no
women for the
first three generations in...
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producers and
consumers of literature. The po****rity of the
works of
Saikaku, for example,
reveals this
change in
readership and authorship,
while Bashō...
- Honchō Waka Fūzoku) is a
collection of homo****uality
stories by
Ihara Saikaku,
published in 1687. The
collection belongs to Ihara's
floating world genre...
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growing middle class. A
prominent author of the
ukiyo genre was
Ihara Saikaku, who
wrote The Life of an
Amorous Woman.
Ukiyo culture also
arose in other...
