The Great Mirror of Male Love - The Custom of Boy Love in Our Land

Ihara Saikaku

Stanford University Press

1991

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780804718950

a collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons. Seventeenth-century Kyoto was the center of a flourishing publishing industry, and for the first time in Japan's history it became possible for writers to live exclusively on their earnings