The Life of a Sensuous Woman
The Life of a Sensuous Woman is a book with the collection of short stories and the narratives concerning women. The story indicates within various dimensions of life, according to Saikaku Life of a Sensuous Woman, it is evident that the shortcomings that women encounter in their efforts to find love and discover sexuality. The narrative illustrates the perception of women who are aging and have hopes of discovering their sexuality and love though the chances to get satisfaction are becoming less currently. This story explains about the confession in which a woman depicts her life to two young men. The narration concerns the childhood life and her strife to make it as a mature person and eventually she becomes a prostitute. The story concerns a woman’s depreciation from a level of grace to shame after growing up in a family of aristocrats.
It is evident that Saikaku aim was to illustrate the adaptability factor of women. This issue is evident because the young men take advantage of asking for advice from the old women as they illustrate to them about their past lives. The duties assigned to women in the past are too much to bear according to the story. Women have the role of becoming attendants at the palace, the royal family dancers and waiters making them seem as enterprising people.
According to the narrative, women have a sensuous story that illustrates their potential of developing to all the characters they want as far as they have set goals. They are depicted as resources of wealth, especially in the low financial backgrounds; they tend to trade their daughters to other families so that they get a better opportunity of having their daughters being chosen as the mistresses of their lords. There is a competition between women to become the lords’ mistresses and this pushes them to borrowing clothes for their impression.
