Ihara Saikaku
Ihara Saikaku , 1642-93, Japanese writer. Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse] poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing sequences of thousands of stanzas in a single sitting. Later he turned to writing ukiyozoshi, a popular prose form which in his hands was elevated to high art through the use of literary allusion, techniques borrowed from poetry, an irreverent style and keen sense of the ironic. Saikaku's highly entertaining stories were populated by merchants, rogues, misers, warriors, and amorous women such as the heroine of Koshoku ichidai onna [life of an amorous woman] who was constantly tripped up by her own lustful nature.
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Literary Allusion and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...interesting discussion of the device of literary allusion. This has led to a better understanding...device is and how it functions. A literary allusion is an explicit or implicit reference...Ziva Ben-Porat's formulation, a literary allusion contains a "built-in directional...
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MENINO'S LITERARY ALLUSION LIGHTENS AN OTHERWISE PAINFUL TEXT ON TAXES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino's speech last Tuesday at the Boston Municipal Research Bureau's annual luncheon was a tough one to deliver, what with its list of proposed taxes and fees. But its most painful point came moments after it began. "Each one of us is faced with profound choices in
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Hymne.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...three works were translated into French. Nakagami died in 1992. Japan enjoys a long tradition of using sex to sell novels. Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), who authored such popular works as The Man Who Spent His Life at Lovemaking and The Great Mirror of Manly...
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Amorous Woman.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch; 4/1/2008; ; 516 words
; ...s love affair with Japan that drew its inspiration from a 17th century classic tale of Japanese 'pleasure quarters' by Ihara Saikaku (whose work was banned by the Japanese government during World War II as a danger to public morality). "Amorous Woman...
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Chains of elusiveness: Buson and Kito's "Momosumomo" haikai sequences.(Yosa Buson, Takai Kito)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Southeast Review of Asian Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the kabuki theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1653-1725) and the gesaku OTC fiction of Ihara Saikaku [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1642-93). Basho's innovations gave a form of poetry that at the time was largely...
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Round-up by SB Kelly: Spix's Macaw
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 9/1/2002; ; 520 words
; ...s favourite Japanese symbol, "Mu" - nothing. Compared to his novels, this feels slightly disappointing. Also try Ihara Saikaku, The Eternal Storehouse of Japan Nothing to Wear & Nowhere to Hide Fay Weldon Flamingo, GBP 14.99 Weldon huffily dismissed...
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What could prompt a revival for Japan?
Magazine article from: Investment Adviser; 11/10/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: John Millar The 17th-century Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku was nothing if not pessimistic. "If making money is a slow process," he wrote, "losing it is quickly done." With October...
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Mizo-san en la Cineteca.
Magazine article from: Proceso; 9/25/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...prostitutas en las condiciones ms srdidas de explotacin. En La vida de O-Haru (1952), inspirada en una novela del clebre Ihara Saikaku (s. XVII), la bella O-Haru, de familia de samuris, es obligada a recorrer todas las formas de prostitucin, desde...
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Gone but not forgotten
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and he has an engaging enthusiasm for the curiosities of literature -- for the feats of the Japanese poet and novelist Ihara Saikaku, for instance, who once produced 23,500 haiku in the space of 24 hours. Laurence Sterne (about whom he writes well...
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Cunning plan for literary Olympics is just a hop, step and jump away
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 6/3/2007; ; 687 words
; ...literary arts as sports. It's not so daft: the Japanese in the 17th century had 'yakazu', or haiku competitions (with Ihara Saikaku taking gold in 1684 with 23,500 poems in 24 hours). The Ancient Greeks may have had an Olympics every four years, but...
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Ihara Saikaku
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ihara Saikaku , 1642-93, Japanese writer. Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai [comic linked verse...poetry, an irreverent style and keen sense of the ironic. Saikaku's highly entertaining stories were populated by merchants...
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Matsuo Basho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...typical literary and artistic personalities. Although Basho was the contemporary of writers like the novelist and poet Ihara Saikaku and the dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon, he was far from being an exponent of the new middle-class culture of the...
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Japanese literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...encompassed a diverse range of subjects: didactic tracts, travel guides, essays, satires, and picaresque fiction. Ihara Saikaku was the foremost master of this last form; his novel Koshoku ichidai onna [the life of an amorous woman] is an ironic...
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Saikaka Ichidai Onna
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Kenji Mizoguchi, from the novel Koshuku ichidai onna by Saikaku Ihara; photography: Yoshimi Hirano; editor: Toshio Goto...longest to get on the screen. The idea of adapting Saikaku's 17th-century picaresque classic came to him at...
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