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Ihara Saikaku Biography

Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

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The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Consideration, Earning, Firsts, Life, Life Is

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Father, Fathers, Giving, Mother, Mothers, Though

And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night till old age - to be taken when required, like fish from a private pond.

Exhaust, Night, Pond, Rivers, Taken

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Boy, Boys, Harshness, Ruin, Ruins

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

Care, House, Houses, Suitors, Widows

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

Concerned, Ease, Longer, May, Young

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Make, Matter, Money, Thinking, Way

When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.

Choices, Clerk, Clerks, Man, Men, Morals

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Careful, Human, Humans, Upset

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

Heart, Keep, Men, Misfortunes, Take

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Alone, Essential, Essentials, Fate, Fortune, Insufficient

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

Done, Losing, Making, Making Money

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

Four, Mankind, Physicians, Poverty, Produced

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Born, Fortune, Mean, Might, Subhuman

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Birth, Counts, Life, Training

Ancient simplicity is gone. . . the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

Gone, People, Simplicity, Today

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall. . . his fortune melted to water.

Beneath, Fall, Ice, Like, Rays, Water