Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on January 2013

Does time change the lascivious path of love? Japanese literature expert Donna George Storey doesn’t seem to think so—she’s released a contemporary e-book interpretation of the classic 17th-century courtier’s tale, The Life of an Amorous Woman, by Ihara Saikaku. In Amorous Woman, Saikaku’s famous story is transformed into that of Lydia Evans, a gaikokujin in Japan who explores love and sex as an English teacher, racy wife, bar hostess, and mistress of a wealthy businessman. Storey holds a PhD from Stanford University and has written more than 100 literary and erotic short stories and essays, drawing from her own experiences in Kyoto to write this novel.

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