Kompira is Yoriko Shono's expansive novel that fuses autobiographical elements with radical imagination, turning unease about gods, land, body, and nation into a singular life story. It borrows the frame of autobiographical fiction while mixing reality with spiritual vision.

A major Shono work in which autobiographical fiction and wild visionary force move toward Kompira.

A critical study that rereads Ihara Saikaku through the economy, pleasure quarters, and social emotions of merchant Osaka. Drawing on the texts and contemporary sources, it reconstructs a vivid image of a writer whose biography remains elusive.

A major biographical-critical work that follows Saikaku's time and place with unusual immediacy.