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...

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)...

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

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...

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

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...

drama film based on part of the 17th century novel of the same name by Ihara Saikaku. Sevakis, Justin (10 December 2013). "Pile of Shame The Sensualist"...

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...

of literature. Even so prolific an author of printed prose works as Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693) also produced handwritten works in several formats, including...