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About the product The Japanese poet and prose writer Iharu Saikaku (1642-1693) 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 direction in prose — ukiyo-zoshi (story about the mortal world), but became famous with the help of koshoku-mono (story of 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. «The story of the love affairs of a lonely woman» is one of the author’s most famous works, a frank confession of an old hermit. Having gone from a sophisticated hetaira to a barker of men on the street, she lived a life of love and pleasure. «Five women who made love» are stories about the fates of five women who violate the laws of the family and the official Confucian morality, obeying the dictates of their hearts. They deliberately and voluntarily commit a crime, despite the fact that women caught in adultery were threatened with the death penalty.
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