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Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikuku - 1992

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Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan by Ihara Saikuku - 1992

Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan

by Ihara Saikuku

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Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN: Charles E. Tuttle Publishers, 1992 Charles E. Tuttle Publishers, Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN. 1992. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 28th Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light edge bumps and rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 264 pp 12mo. First published in 1686 it was an immediate best seller in the bawdy, naive, life-loving, artistic, medieval world of Genroku, Japan. Today it stands as a living classic. With love as its background, the book takes five typical women of the time and follows them in the course of their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. A clean very presentable copy.
  • Bookseller Walnut Valley Books/Books by White US (US)
  • Format/Binding Soft cover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Paperback
  • ISBN 10 0804801843
  • ISBN 13 9780804801843
  • Publisher Charles E. Tuttle Publishers
  • Place of Publication Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN
  • Date Published 1992
  • Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
  • Keywords Japan, Genroku, Japanese love stories, 16th Century Japan, women in love, lesbians, lesbian love in Japan, Lesbianism, LGBTQ, gays, sexuality, female sexuality
  • Size 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

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FIVE WOMEN WHO LOVED LOVE: Amorous Tales From 17th-Century Japan

by Saikaku, Ihara

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Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 1989. Later Printing. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear; underlining and notes throughout the text. Good. 264pp. 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.
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