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Five women who loved love

With love as its background, the book takes five typical women of the time as its heorines and follows them in the course of their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. These are five determined women who place love above all, defying the conventions of the society in which they live and, w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693
Otros Autores: De Bary, William Theodore, 1919-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Japanese
Publicado: Tokyo ; Rutland Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1956.
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Sumario:With love as its background, the book takes five typical women of the time as its heorines and follows them in the course of their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. These are five determined women who place love above all, defying the conventions of the society in which they live and, when necessary, bravely meeting the tragic ends imposed by a relentless moral code and their own passionate natures.
Notas:Traducción de: Kōshoku gonin onna.
En portada: Amorous tales from 17th-century Japan.
Descripción Física:264 páginas : ilustraciones ; 18 cm.
ISBN:0804801843
9780804801843