Five women who gave themselves over to love
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Five women who gave themselves over to love
6.99 €
Japanese poet and writer Ihara Saikaku was recognized as a classic during his lifetime. For his rare talent for improvisation, he was called "the master of twenty thousand lines." He became the founder of a new trend in prose - ukiyo-zoshi (stories about the mortal world), but became famous for koshoku-mono (stories about love). Saikaku so vividly described the world of passion and pleasure and so fully depicted the life of contemporary Japan with everything that is low and high in it that he raised the genre of love stories to the level of real literature.
"Five Women Who Surrendered to Love" is a story about the fates of five women who violate the laws of the family and official Confucian morality, obeying the dictates of the heart. They consciously and voluntarily commit a crime, despite the fact that women convicted of adultery were threatened with the death penalty.
"The History of the Love Adventures of a Single Woman" is one of the author's most famous works, a frank confession of an old hermit. Having gone from a refined hetaera to a barker of men on the street, she lived a life of love and pleasure.
"Five Women Who Surrendered to Love" is a story about the fates of five women who violate the laws of the family and official Confucian morality, obeying the dictates of the heart. They consciously and voluntarily commit a crime, despite the fact that women convicted of adultery were threatened with the death penalty.
"The History of the Love Adventures of a Single Woman" is one of the author's most famous works, a frank confession of an old hermit. Having gone from a refined hetaera to a barker of men on the street, she lived a life of love and pleasure.
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