About The Author and Book The book Five Women Who Loved Love was written by novelist and poet Saikaku Ihara. It is a combination of five novels and was first published in 1686. These different novels have been around for 330 years now and has since been a very popular book as age increased. Ihara was able to really understand the modern world. He was a writer during the Genroku period, which was the Edo era and known as the golden age. Saikaku born in 1642 and is a son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka. He had a wife and three kids, one of which is blind. He learned how to do haikai poetry and comics, but it was not until his wife died at a young age that he began to write novels. One of his first was Koshoku Ichidai Otoko in 1682.
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It portrayed how men and women fell in love and the consequences that came with it. There were five different stories about five different women and most of them ended up tragically. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) it was tough with the hierarchical order. Death was upon many of those who dare to sleep with the daughters of masters, commit adultery, kidnap, and even embezzle. During the Tokugawa period, there was social order, which was based on positions that was inherited, there was no legal rights to individuals, and family rank and rights was very important.
What I found interesting about Saikaku’s stories was that it was the women who had control over then men. It was their beauty that attracted these men and made these women dominant. Saikaku also uses great color of emotions with in the story. An example would be on page seventy-one. “His body, stained like the blood-soaked grass on which it fell, was washed clean and buried” (Saikaku, pg. 71). The book is drenched in these colorful images that Saikaku uses and is brought to life within our minds.
Why Is This Book
It portrayed how men and women fell in love and the consequences that came with it. There were five different stories about five different women and most of them ended up tragically. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) it was tough with the hierarchical order. Death was upon many of those who dare to sleep with the daughters of masters, commit adultery, kidnap, and even embezzle. During the Tokugawa period, there was social order, which was based on positions that was inherited, there was no legal rights to individuals, and family rank and rights was very important.
What I found interesting about Saikaku’s stories was that it was the women who had control over then men. It was their beauty that attracted these men and made these women dominant. Saikaku also uses great color of emotions with in the story. An example would be on page seventy-one. “His body, stained like the blood-soaked grass on which it fell, was washed clean and buried” (Saikaku, pg. 71). The book is drenched in these colorful images that Saikaku uses and is brought to life within our minds.
Why Is This Book