The floating world in Japanese fiction

This is a detailed study of ukiyo-zoshi, tales of the Floating World, and a fascinating look at the manners and customs, arts and affectations, of city life in Tokugawa-era Japan. Here are the rakish shopkeepers, teahouse women, celebrated actors, and ordinary townspeople, all obsessed with the purs...

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Main Author: Hibbett, Howard
Format: Book
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Published: New York Oxford University Press 1960
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ