Ihara Saikaku This Scheming World (Paperback) Tuttle Specials (UK IMPORT)All Tariffs and Duties included - no additional charges
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Ihara Saikaku This Scheming World (Paperback) Tuttle Specials (UK IMPORT). The culmination of Saikaku's perceptive genius, the 20 short stories withinThis Scheming World recount raucous events and incidents on New Year's Eve as everyone tries to settle their debts for the year, as is the New Year's custom. Further DetailsTitle: This Scheming World Condition: New Description: A Great Classic of Japanese literature and the masterpiece of novelist Ihara Saikaku—now in a completely new and revised edition with introduction by noted scholar David J. Gundry The culmination of Saikaku's perceptive genius, the 20 short stories within This Scheming World recount raucous events and incidents on New Year's Eve as everyone tries to settle their debts for the year, as is the New Year's custom. Crafty money lenders attempt to collect their money from equally crafty debtors, and Saikaku portrays his characters with so lifelike a touch that, even though three centuries have passed since his time, it seems as if they were our contemporaries.The new Introduction by Saikaku expert David J. Gundry explains how and why this entertaining work still resonates with modern readers today.The finely-crafted tales include stories of: Philanderers who slip off to hide in the homes of their mistresses Hustlers who leave town suddenly on "very important" business trips Connivers who become actors for a day to hide-in-plain-sight on stage "The New Year's Eve is more precious than a thousand pieces of gold. It is the Great Divide between winter and spring, which none can pass over without copper and silver." —Ihara Saikaku Author: Ihara Saikaku Contributor: Masanori Takatsuka (Translated by), David C. Stubbs (Translated by), David J. Gundry (Introduction by) ISBN-10: 0804859329 EAN: 9780804859325 ISBN: 9780804859325 Format: Paperback Item Height: 203mm Item Length: 130mm Genre: Fiction Subtitle: Classic Tales of Desire, Deception and Greed in Old Japan Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Release Date: 10/21/2025 Language: English Item Weight: 170g Translator: Masanori Takatsuka, David C. Stubbs Topic: Classic Fiction, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Literary Criticism Series: Tuttle Specials Item Width: 13mm Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
