The Life of an Amorous Man
The first ukiyo-zōshi novel of urban life in Edo-period Osaka
- Author
- Ihara Saikaku
- Century
- 17th century
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What was happening in the world
- 1687 Newton's Principia
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great
- 1683 Battle of Vienna
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution