Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan

Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 1: From Earliest Times to 1600

A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, "Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1" has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and student

Sources of Indian Tradition: From the Beginning to 1800

Since 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition has been one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-sates of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). It has helped generations of students and lay reader

Sources of Japanese Tradition (Volume I)

Volume 1 addresses the development, through the eighteenth century, of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism.

The Life of an Amorous Man

First published in 1682, The Life of an Amorous Man depicts the pursuits and follies of the most glorious age of Japan, when wealthy commoners could rise above the warrior caste and indulge in the free and easy life of Japan's pleasure houses. The hero, Y

The Great Mirror of Male Love

The first complete translation of Nanshoku okagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), this is a collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons. Seventeenth-c

The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

[From back.]One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by

Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Comrade Loves of the Samurai

In old Japan, sexual love among the samurai was permissible, and often matured into lifelong companionships. Comrade Loves of the Samurai touches the subject of both normal and abnormal love with honesty and tenderness.