In a story by this author, a cooper’s wife is accused of betraying her husband with an old man who musses her hair with a bowl, leading her to actually cheat in order to show up the accuser. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 17th-century author whose novellas “The Barrelmaker Brimful of Love” and “What the Seasons Brought the Almanac Maker” appear in the collection Five Women Who Loved Love.
ANSWER: Ihara Saikaku [or Saikaku Ihara; or Ihara Kakuei; or Hirayama Tōgo or Tōgo Hirayama]
[10e] Saikaku’s work exemplifies this genre of literature focused on urban hedonism, whose name is typically translated as “floating world.”
ANSWER: ukiyo [or ukiyo-zōshi; accept ukiyo-e]
[10m] In the first story of the set, Seijūrō (“SAY-joo-roh”) uses lion dancers as a cover to seduce Onatsu while on one of these excursions. Teinosuke (“TAY-no-skeh”) uses a Leica camera during one of these sightseeing excursions in Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters.
ANSWER: cherry blossom viewings [or hanami; or cherry flower viewing; or sakura viewing; or descriptions of looking at cherry trees; prompt on picnics or parties or equivalents; reject “flower arrangement” or “ikebana”]
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