Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi). Born as...

com. Ihara Saikaku (1989). "Budō denraiki" 武道伝来記. In Taniwaki, Masachika [in Japanese]; Inoue, Toshiyuki; Fuji, Akio (eds.). Budō denraiki/Saikaku okimiyage/Yorozu...

personality Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642–1693), Japanese poet and writer Shintaro Ihara (井原 伸太郎, born 1991), Japanese footballer Takatada Ihara (井原 高忠, 1929–2014)...

guardian deities of nanshoku" (male–male love). Tokugawa-era writer Ihara Saikaku joked that since there are no women for the first three generations...

a collection of homosexuality stories by Ihara Saikaku, published in 1687. The collection belongs to Ihara's floating world genre of Japanese literature...

Amorous Woman (好色一代女, Kōshoku ichidai onna) is a Japanese short novel by Ihara Saikaku which depicts the ukiyo ("floating world") of Edo period Japan. It was...

Japan's growing middle class. A prominent author of the ukiyo genre was Ihara Saikaku, who wrote The Life of an Amorous Woman. Ukiyo culture also arose in...

prominent artists at the time. The most prominent author of ukiyo-zōshi was Ihara Saikaku, whose works were not regarded as high literature at the time, but became...

Union (IAU) in 1979. The crater is named for Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku. Oblique view "Saikaku". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. IAU/USGS/NASA. Retrieved...

likened to the comic-prose of the seventeenth-century Japanese writer Ihara Saikaku. His novel The Pornographers was translated into English by Michael...