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Until this time, previous works usually bias to specific women who are forced to live the miserable lives by feudalism in Edo period. In this paper, Saikaku’s view of womanhood is studied analyzing various looks of women described in works. As research methods, the view of study is declared how to look at a man and a woman’s love or date and we looked the result and Kosyoku of heroines in the work examining contents of each volume of ≪Koshokugoninonna≫ in 5. From this result, it is studied how women of Jo-Nin love and date based on the behavior of heroines in each story. Saikaku looked at the love of a couple in a positive way and advised married woman to be a Buddhist monk, using the public eye. To summarize the case, Saikaku expressed positive view about the pure love of married woman and sympathy for woman who faces death. And also, Saikaku tried to describe the woman who lives an independent life even perceiving the love ends in tragedy because of social environment. SaiKaku’s works was beloved because this active attitude makes readers in Edo period empathize and get vicarious satisfaction with the women in Saikaku’s works.