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"Vast Is the World and Its Provinces
I Have Traveled Through,
Reaping the Seeds of Tales...
...Come to Think About It
It Is Humans that Are the Twisted Ones
There Is Nothing that Is Not of This World!"
Saikaku's Tales
from
the Provinces
西鶴諸国はなし
Saikaku
shokoku
banashi
Ihara Saikaku's 1685 Saikaku's Tales from the Provinces is a collection of 35 short stories spread over five volumes.
The work is an eclectic one, featuring the natural and supernatural, the past and present, and the familiar and hidden.
This site serves as a supplement for the forthcoming English language translation of the collection, guiding readers to the inner recesses of seventeenth-century Japan and beyond.
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