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" "Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
Ihara Saikaku (Japanese: 井原西鶴; 1642–1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).
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