Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693):

Recommended Background Texts:

• Keene, Donald, World Within Walls (1976) (on order)
  
• Hibbett, Howard, The Floating World in Japanese Fiction (1975) PL747.35.H5 1975
  
• Saikaku, Ihara, The Great Mirror of Male Love (1990), trans. Paul Gordon Schalow PL794.N37E5 1990
  
• -----, Some Final Words of Advice, trans. Peter Nosco (1980) (on order)
  
• -----, Life of an Amorous Woman & Other Writings, trans. Ivan Morris (1969) PL794.K613 1969
  
• -----, The Japanese Family Storehouse, trans. G. W. Sargent (1959) PL794 .J37
  
• -----, Five Women Who Loved Love, trans. William Theodore de Bary (1956) (on order)