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Spring 2026 Literature Course – The “Floating World Fiction” of Ihara Saikaku
Please sign up for this literature course, which will introduce three key works by Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693), widely acclaimed as early-Tokugawa Japan’s greatest writer of fiction.
The instructor for the course is David J. Gundry, Associate Professor of Japanese and Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for Japanese at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches classes on Japanese literature from the early period to the present.
Reading materials will be shared with registered attendees ahead of the first class on April 12, so participants have plenty of time to do the readings.
The course syllabus is available now.