In general, Saikaku Ihara's stories about warriors, for example, ”Transmission of the Martial” and ”Tales of Samurai Honor,” were not as highly appraised as his other compositions such as erotic stories and town-people stories. However, because he was familiar with the warriors, there is much truth in his stories about warriors. These compositions are helpful to understand the spirit of Bushido and deserve reappraisal. On the other hand, because Saikaku sharply felt the contradictions in vengeance, which was the spirit of Bushido, his stories about vengeance were not glorious stories but cruel tragedies. Moreover, what these stories show was not the warriors as idealized existence but the warriors as men who suffered from the contradictions of the interpersonal relationship and the system in the real society. From these viewpoints, they are stories, which deserve reappraisal.
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