{"product_id":"9784805310120","title":"Five Women Who Loved Love","description":"Author: Ihara Saikaku\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9784805310120\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Berkeley Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Mar 2017\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1686, \u003ci\u003eFive Women Who Loved Love\u003c\/i\u003e was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy, life-loving world that was Genroku Japan. And the novel's popularity has, if anything, increased with the years, making it today a classic like Boccaccio's \u003ci\u003eDecameron\u003c\/i\u003e or the writings of Rabelais.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book follows five determined women in their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. The five heroines are Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love by the age of sixteen; Osen, a faithful wife until unjustly accused of adultery; Osan, a Kyoto beauty who falls asleep in the wrong bed; Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover; and Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the book is more than a collection of skillfully told erotic tales, for, as the translator points out in the introduction, \"Saikaku ... could not delve into the inmost secrets of human life only to expose them to ridicule or snickering prurience. Obviously fascinated by the variety and complexity of human love, but retaining always a sense of its intrinsic dignity ... he is both a discriminating and compassionate judge of his fellow men.\"Saikaku's style, as allusive as it is witty, as abbreviated as it is penetrating, is a challenge that few translators have dared face, and certainly never before with the success here achieved in a translation that recaptures the heady flavor of the original.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875654619294,"sku":"ADS-9784805310120","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9784805310120.jpg?v=1779754857","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9784805310120","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}