Life of a Sensuous Woman, by Ihara Saikaku

In the novel "sensuous woman's life", Ihara Saikaku depicts a woman's journey, she said that ukiyoe would be happy to indulge in a constant search of greedy way to satisfy social status and inevitable depression Find yourself in life. Saikaku characters, use of plot and water images, sensual women's life To the satire comments on the way of life of ukiyo-e creation: create surface, inequality, social hypocrisy It is proposed to do. Ukiyo-e is an effort to live the pursuit of happiness culture in daily life.

Sensual women's lives written by the Ihara Prime Minister in the 17th century and advocacy of women's rights in the 18th century by Mary Woolstonecraft promote feminism when women are oppressed by members of our society It is a powerful literary work to do. The two pieces have differences of the centuries, and the authors of both works have made unique attempts to clarify the problem that no one thought at the time. Despite these differences

Along with the population increase of people, the literacy rate was constantly improved during the Edo period, promotion of development of many different kinds of lending library and literary work was promoted. Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) can be said as a modern consciousness of the novels born in Japan, his area and talking humorous happy dialect dialogue, so-called Ukiyoe "floating world" type. Ihara An interesting person's life is thought to be the first task of this type. Their purpose is to promote the townspeople as being in the townspeople, but since they become popular and become key to the development and popularization of ukiyo-e, the work of Mr. Ihara does not consider high-level literature,

During the Genroku era (1688 - 1704), craftsmen and merchants in the city became major supporters of literature, professional artists began to appear. In fact it depicts the life of the Osaka merchant Ihara Saikaku, preparing Joruri of Chikamatsu Monzaemon, this is a story including a singing line, Kabuki: There were giants in the field of prose in two people. These authors have brought lots of literary works. Fiction writer Ueda Akira creates a series of Gothic novels, and then Yoshio Buson is called the rainy moon tale story (a story of moonlight and rain) which creates a splendid hectare sentence depicting nature.