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Travel and Encounter in Early Modern Japan Main Menu Course Description Edo Period Ihara Saikaku Matsuo Bashō

Unit 2.2

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Ukiyo is a homophone, however, with a quite different term: the world (yo) of suffering (uki): a term with very Buddhist connotations. The Buddha himself famously declared that to live is to suffer, and Buddhism teaches us that the world around us is a world of constant suffering that we only escape through good deeds and proper living.

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Contents of this path:
1. Course Description
2. Edo Period
3. Unit 1.2
4. Unit 1.3
5. Unit 1.4
6. Unit 1.5
7. Ihara Saikaku
8. Unit 2.1
9. Unit 2.2
10. Unit 2.3
11. Unit 2.4
12. Unit 2.5
13. Unit 2 Questions
14. Matsuo Bashō
15. Unit 3.1
16. Unit 3.2
17. Unit 3.3
18. Unit 3.4
19. Unit 3.5
20. Unit 3 Questions