Japanese Love
Anthony Thwaite, 14 June 1990
Childhood Years: A Memoir
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Paul McCarthy.
240 pp., £15, February 1990,0 00 215325 4 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Paul McCarthy.
240 pp., £15, February 1990,
The Great Mirror of Male Love
by Ihara Saikaku, translated by Paul GordonSchalow.
371 pp., $37.50, February 1990,0 8047 1661 7 Show More
by Ihara Saikaku, translated by Paul GordonSchalow.
371 pp., $37.50, February 1990,
“... for a long time in the West, and have led Saikaku to be thought of as a sort of Japanese Defoe. Paul GordonSchalow’s labours in translating and introducing The Great Mirror of Male Love reveal a rather different Saikaku. This book is a collection of 40 short stories ‘depicting homosexual love relations between ... ”
