Lyubovnye pohozhdeniya odinokogo muzhchiny

"Kak shirok etot mir!" - vosklicaet chelovek po imeni Enoske, kotoryy zhivet v XVII veke v "samoizolirovavsheysya" Yaponii. Pri tom, chto kontakty s vneshnim mirom svedeny k minimumu, Yaponiya v eto vremya perezhivaet burnye peremeny, pokidaya epohu srednevekov'ya - zakladyvayutsya te osnovy, kotorye my segodnya schitaem osobennostyami yaponskoy tradicionnoy kul'tury. Stranstviya Enoske po gorodam i gluhim ugolkam strany, a takzhe ego besschetnye romany s zhenschinami sostavlyayut sut' syuzheta. Etu knigu, postroennuyu kak istoriya zhizni muzhchiny, vsecelo otdavshegosya lyubovnoy strasti, napisal klassik yaponskoy literatury Ihara Saykaku (1642-1693), ch'e imya v mirovoy literature neredko stavyat v odin ryad s Bokkachcho i Servantesom. Knigi Saykaku uzhe perevodilis' na russkiy yazyk, no ne eta - pervaya i samaya znamenitaya, "Istoriya lyubovnyh pohozhdeniy odinokogo muzhchiny" (1682). Osobyy mir kvartalov lyubvi, tesno svyazannyh s teatrom, poeziey, gravyuroy, pokazan zdes' s tochki zreniya nasmeshlivogo i mudrogo nablyudatelya. Illyustracii k pervomu izdaniyu, predpolozhitel'no sdelannye samim avtorom, pozvolyayut esche pod odnim uglom vzglyanut' na zhizn' "cheloveka mira sego" - tak perevoditsya imya geroya, Enoske.