Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) was the most important novelist of the seventeenth century. In 1675, after the deaths of his wife and daughter, withdrew from the world to devote himself exclusively to writing. In 1682 he published raunchy without lineage Man, his first prose work. Five women arrive later passionate, life loving woman and pride The great mirror of male love, which describes natural talent and joyful life in the pleasure quarters of Japan's big cities. Saikaku enjoyed great success and popularity and knew bringing literature to a growing and thriving business class stories claiming reflection of his own life.