Mistress Oriku

Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Classics, Historical
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Author: Matsutaro Kawaguchi ISBN: 9781462912612
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Publication: June 11, 2013
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing Language: English
Author: Matsutaro Kawaguchi
ISBN: 9781462912612
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication: June 11, 2013
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Language: English

"Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb-crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."-Booklist

Sensitive, compassionate, and indomitable, Mistress Oriku has abandoned the pleasure trades of Tokyo to run an elegant teahouse on the city's outskirts. Despite her hopes for a quieter, less hectic life, she finds she can't escape her involvement in the city's creative, intellectual and political circles.

Oriku finds herself the subject of unanticipated attention, because along with her passion for music, theater and storytelling, she offers her own invaluable talents: a vibrant appreciation of life, an unparalleled gift for hospitality, and the maturity and sensitivity necessary to instruct young people in the all-important arts of love. Her independent thinking and love of Tokyo's traditions offer a unique perspective on the surprising complexity and contradictions of the Japanese culture of the era.

Now available in English for the first time, Japan's beloved Mistress Oriku is filled with clear-eyed nostalgia for the vanished-and entirely captivating-world of old Tokyo.

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"Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb-crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."-Booklist

Sensitive, compassionate, and indomitable, Mistress Oriku has abandoned the pleasure trades of Tokyo to run an elegant teahouse on the city's outskirts. Despite her hopes for a quieter, less hectic life, she finds she can't escape her involvement in the city's creative, intellectual and political circles.

Oriku finds herself the subject of unanticipated attention, because along with her passion for music, theater and storytelling, she offers her own invaluable talents: a vibrant appreciation of life, an unparalleled gift for hospitality, and the maturity and sensitivity necessary to instruct young people in the all-important arts of love. Her independent thinking and love of Tokyo's traditions offer a unique perspective on the surprising complexity and contradictions of the Japanese culture of the era.

Now available in English for the first time, Japan's beloved Mistress Oriku is filled with clear-eyed nostalgia for the vanished-and entirely captivating-world of old Tokyo.

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