The Great Mirror of Male Love
Title | The Great Mirror of Male Love PDF eBook |
Author | Saikaku Ihara |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780804718950 |
Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. ---------- "A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."--Journal of Japanese Studies
"The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku
Title | "The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Gordon Schalow |
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Release | 1986 |
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"The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku
Title | "The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Gordon Schalow |
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Release | 1985 |
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The Life of an Amorous Woman
Title | The Life of an Amorous Woman PDF eBook |
Author | 井原西鶴 |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811201872 |
Ihara Saikaku "wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world -- the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status."--Back cover.
This Scheming World
Title | This Scheming World PDF eBook |
Author | Ihara Saikaku |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2011-12-20 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 146290260X |
This classic work of Japanese literature is considered the masterpiece of Japanese novelist Seken Munasanya. This Scheming World (Seken Munasanyo) was published in 1692, one year before the author’s death. It represents the culmination of Saikaku’s perceptive genius, and in structure, is one of the most consolidated of all his works. Most of the stories are told as incidents or episodes relating to New Year’s Eve, when in those days it was the custom to balance all debits and credits for the year. Saikaku portrays his characters with so lifelike a touch that, even though three centuries have passed since his time, it seems as if they were our contemporaries. Decidedly inclined towards the debtors, Saikaku has them slipping off to the homes of their favorite mistresses, leaving town on “sudden” business trips, or becoming actors for the day in order to deceive the ever–persistent year–end collectors. Some of his characters are successful, while some are beset by even more troubles in trying to avoid the collectors. The episodes are always frank, often with humor, and occasionally pathetic. But more than anything else, the seventeenth century day–to–day way of living by the commoners comes vividly to life.
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan
Title | A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Gordon Schalow |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2006-12-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0824861280 |
Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evidence that women hoped to move beyond the constraints of marriage politics. Paul Schalow’s original and challenging work inherits these concerns about the transcendence of love and carries them into a new realm of inquiry—the suffering of noblemen and the literary record of their hopes for transcendence through friendship. He traces this recurring theme, which he labels "courtly male friendship," in five important literary works ranging from the tenth-century Tale of Ise to the early eleventh-century Tale of Genji. Whether authored by men or women, the depictions of male friendship addressed in this work convey the differing perspectives of male and female authors profoundly shaped by their gender roles in the court aristocracy. Schalow’s analysis clarifies in particular how Heian literature articulates the nobleman’s wish to be known and appreciated fully by another man.
Male Colors
Title | Male Colors PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Leupp |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 052091919X |
Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P. Leupp fills the gap with a dynamic examination of the origins and nature of the tradition. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. Combing through popular fiction, law codes, religious works, medical treatises, biographical material, and artistic treatments, Leupp traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai, then describes the emergence of homosexual practices among commoners in Tokugawa cities. He argues that it was "nurture" rather than "nature" that accounted for such conspicuous male/male sexuality and that bisexuality was more prevalent than homosexuality. Detailed, thorough, and very readable, this study is the first in English or Japanese to address so comprehensively one of the most complex and intriguing aspects of Japanese history.