The Demimonde in Japanese Literature: Sexuality and the Literary Karykai

by Cynthia Gralla

From the Edo-period works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Saikaku Iharu, to modern texts by Nagai Kaf?, Tanizaki Junichiro, and Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, the Japanese literary canon is filled with works about the demimonde, or kary?kai. After years of being closed off to Western influences on both its literature and social policy, Japan fully opened up to the West in the late nineteenth century and finally abolished legalized prostitution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604977280
• ISBN13: 9781604977288
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"