![]() ![]() His titles say it all: Life of a Sex-Mad Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko 好色一代男, 1682), Life of a Sex-Mad Woman (Kōshoku ichidai onna 公職一代女, 1686), Five Sex-Mad Women (Kōshoku gonin onna 公職五人女, 1686), and Great Mirror of Sex between Men (Nanshoku ōkagami 男色大鏡, 1687). Saikaku talked of “floating worlds” ( ukiyo), places of pleasant and carefree existence, indeed, of irresponsibility and profligacy. Saikaku captured an age of peace, after Japan's long civil war, which then flowered in the rich and free-spending Genroku period (1688–1704). He dominated the field, we are generally told, with a series of best-selling titles that gripped readers across the Japanese archipelago's major cities and went through multiple print runs, and still do so. ![]() ![]() The name we all know is Ihara Saikaku (1642–93). Many people work on Japanese popular fiction of the seventeenth century, and even more engage with it as enthusiastic readers. ![]()
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