Description
This book is an annotated scholarly study of the Japanese literary text Y?shi h?gen (1770) accompanied by an English translation of that text, Y?shi h?gen belongs to a genre called sharebon (books for the stylish), which flourished in Japan between mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. These were short texts, produced as booklets, which consisted mostly of dialogue and concerned pleasure-quarter culture. They examined the behavior of male visitors to a brothel and purported to advise the would be sophisticate on how to conduct himself from start to finish of his pleasure excursion.
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