For a sum much smaller than a plane ticket an American woman can travel to a rustic hot-spring inn where anything goes after midnight, don the gorgeous kimono of a Japanese bride, romp in the dungeon rooms of tacky love hotels, act out an orgy straight from manga porn, and slip inside Kyoto?s most exclusive restaurants for exquisite dinners of seduction. The Amorous Woman experiences almost every flavor of erotic pleasure Japan has to offer?and she?s happy to take you along for the ride. Inspired by Ihara Saikaku?s 17th-century satiric novel of the pleasure quarters, this story of an American woman?s love affair with Japan?and many sexy men and women along the way?gives readers a chance to journey to a Japan few tourists ever see.