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Condition: Good Cover: severe fading of spine and parts of front and back; light wear to corners and edges, bottom leading corner slightly crushed. Book: short ink inscription on flyleaf, pages browning slightly but otherwise clean. Spine unbroken and book apparently unread. Plot / Content: Thirteen short stories, also known as the Great Mirror of Male Love, translated by E Powys Mathers. This edition includes Songs of the Geishas. Background / Biography: IHARA Saikaku (Japanese: 井原 西鶴; 1642 – 9 September 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi). continued on Wikipedia Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "The fairest plants and trees meet their death because of the marvel of their flowers. And it is the same with humanity: many men perish because they are too beautiful. There was a page name Ukyo-Itami, who served a Lord at Yedo. He was cultured and elegant and so extremely beautiful that he troubled the eyes of those who looked at him. His master had another page named Uneme Mokawa, eighteen years of age, who also had great beauty and a countenance full of graces. Ukyo was so smitten with this other as almost to lose his senses, so moved was he by his virile loveliness. He suffered to such an extent from his love that he fell ill and had to take to his bed, where he sighed and moaned his unheard love in solitude. But he was very popular, and many people had pity on him and came to see him in his illness, to care for him and console him." opening paragraphs, "All Comrade-Lovers die by Hara-kiri" Secondhand booksellers |
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