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Five Women Who Loved Love
Five Women Who Loved Love: ????? | Saikaku Ihara
2 posts | 1 read | 1 reading | 3 to read
First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, (…more)
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A newly acquired 1958 Folio Society edition of short stories originally published in 1686, in which Ihara is credited with creating the Ukiyo "Floating World" genre of Edo Period Japanese literature.
Folio covers are often difficult to photograph: this one is bound in a beautiful watchet-tinted silk ?
The end papers and title pages are beneath, and a detail of one of the woodcut illustrations to the left ❤️

AllDebooks What a find 😍 3w
Bookwomble @AllDebooks Yes, I'm pleased with it 😊 3w
LeahBergen That‘s beautiful! 3w
tpixie Lovely ☺️ 2w
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3AM, starting a new book