Question
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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 10.00 | 88% | 4% | 8% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Brown | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Illinois | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| McGill | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona State | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |