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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.

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