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The Great Mirror of Male Love (Paperback)
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The Great Mirror of Male Love (Paperback)
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The first complete translation of Nanshoku okagami by Ihara Saikaku
(1642-93), this is 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. Saikaku was the first to
actually do so. As a popular writer, Saikaku wanted to entertain
his readership. When he undertook the writing of Nanshoku okagami
in 1687, it was with the express purpose of extending his
readership and satisfying his ambition to be published in the three
major cities of his day, Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo. He chose the topic
of male homosexual love because it had the broadest appeal both to
the samurai men of Edo and to the townsmen of Kyoto and Osaka, his
regular audience. Homosexual relations between a man and a boy were
a regular feature of premodern Japanese culture and carried no
stigma. When a boy reached the age of nineteen, he underwent a
coming-of-age ceremony, after which he took the adult role in
relations with boys.
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