Ihara Saikaku
(1642-1693)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Keene, Donald, World Within Walls (1976)
  • 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)
  • -----, 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)

 

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