Ihara Saikaku

Naissance 1642 · Décès 1693

Originaire de Nakatsu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan · Nationalité : Japan · Écrit de la fiction

Citations

“Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book IEn anglais
“Like ice beneath the sun’s rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book IIIEn anglais
“If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book IIIEn anglais
“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind — to even the wisest and cleverest of us — is the plague of poverty.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book IIIEn anglais
“There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.”
The Japanese Family Storehouse, Book IIEn anglais

Ihara Saikaku