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Saikaku was born heir to a major merchant household in Osaka, and went on to become head of the household and of the family's commercial.

Ihara Saikaku, while creating the image of a fair urban commoner, praised a methodical life that demanded taming temptations, which he refered to as poisons.

Ihara Saikaku was a poet and novelist, one of the most brilliant figures of the 17th-century revival of Japanese literature.

For the first time, literary heroes are to found among the everyday folk, with Ihara's stories reflecting life on the streets of the cities.

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Ihara Saikaku was a poet and novelist, one of the most brilliant figures of the 17th-century revival of Japanese literature..

Ihara Saikaku

Japanese poet

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ihara.

Ihara Saikaku 井原西鶴
Portrait of Ihara Saikaku
Born	Hirayama Togo (平山藤五) 1642 Osaka, Japan
Died	September 9, 1693 (aged 50–51) Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Poetry, Fiction
Literary movement	Ukiyo-zōshi

Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanesepoet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

His born name may have been Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, and he first studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse.

Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677 Saikaku is known to have composed 1,600 haikai verses ^[1] and an amazing