
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
Saikaku Ihara(Author)
Tuttle Shokai Inc (Publisher)
Published on 12. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-4-8053-0771-7 (ISBN)
Description
In old Japan, sexual love among the samurai was permissible, and often matured into lifelong companionships. Ihari Saikakku (1642-93) was one of the most illustrious writers of Japan's seventeenth century literary revival. Money and love predominates in most of his incomparable stories. "The Songs of the Geisha" included in this volume is a collection of geisha folk songs composed to be sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen. All of the songs have a charmingly nostalgic quality which fitted well with the time and the circumstances for which they were composed. They are intimately personal, expressing the feelings of the geisha towards their sympathetic listeners. These lyrics, for all their erotic symbolism, are restrained and tactful, and their erotic beauty must be felt rather than heard.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kanagawa
Japan
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-8053-0771-7 (9784805307717)
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The translator, E. Powys Mathers, was born in England in 1892. A graduate of Oxford, he is best known for his translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.