Japanese Culture in the Seventeenth Century
            
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                In nine pages the Japanese cultural period known as Genroku is examined in terms of the cultural contributions of dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon, haiku poet extraordinaire Matsuo Basho, and the first great novelist of Japan, Ihara Saikaku.  Six sources are cited in the bibliography.