井原西鶴

First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan

Five Women Who Loved Love

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.

And Other Writings

The Life of an Amorous Woman

井原西鶴集

井原西鶴集: 好色一代男 ; 好色五人女 ; 好色一代女

西鶴集. 1, 好色一代男. - 好色五人女. - 好色一代女

譯註・西鶴全集: 好色五人女

絵入

好色五人女

与謝野鉄幹

好色五人女・本朝二十不孝

好色五人女・影印

愛しい清十郎との駆け落ちもつかの間、捕らわれ引き離されたお夏。幸せな夫婦生活から一転、ふとしたきっかけで自ら命を絶ったおせん。手代茂右衛門との不義の果て、揃って潔い最期を遂げたおさん。恋しい吉三郎会いたさに放火の罪で火あぶりとなったお七。振り向いてくれない男のために男装してまで追いかけたおまん。運命に翻弄されても最期は自分の意思で生きた潔い女たち。涙あり、笑いあり、美少年ありの西鶴傑作短編集。

現代語訳付き

新版好色五人女

恋に命を賭した女達を描く「好色五人女」。老婆から艶めかしく多彩な遍歴が語られる「好色一代女」。絶筆にして最高傑作「西鶴置土産」の三篇収録。元禄大坂の粋が吉行、丹羽の名文で甦る最も贅沢な訳書。

現代語訳好色五人女

長田幹彦

好色五人女・好色一代女

好色五人女 ; 好色一代女

本文篇・索引篇

新編西鶴全集 2(全3冊)

定本西鶴全集

浮世草子

新編西鶴全集 1 索引

The Life of an Amorous Man depicts the pursuits and follies of the most glorious age of old Japan, when the new bourgeoisie, unfettered by the societal constraints of the traditional aristocracy, indulged in the free and easy life of Japan's celebrated pleasure houses. The hero of this novel is a composite of the many daijin (men of wealth) who spent their time in these flourishing establishments. The novel follows the hero, Yonosuke, or "Man of the World," from precocious childhood to the close of his amatory career. Along the way, Saikaku exploits the full gamut of sexual indulgence, always with frankness, often with humor, and occasionally with pathos - chronicling the erotic escapades of his hero and providing vivid character sketches of the women (and sometimes men) with whom Yonosuke dallied.

好色五人男

Life of an Amorous Man, The

井原西鶴

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