
Hey, you are not Scott Black...
But did you know about his published works:
This essay explores how Ihara Saikaku's new form of fiction—ukiyo-zoshi—both adapts and adopts traditional Japanese aesthetics. Saikaku's Five Women Who Loved Love (1686) is a paradigmatic example of the modern conception of ukiyo, which inverts the traditional Buddhist sense of ukiyo, written with a different character, to express the ephemeral, often erotic pleasures of the floating world, rather than sadness in the face of its transience.