The Great Mirror of Male Love
by Ihara Saikaku
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Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. ---------- "A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."--Journal of Japanese StudiesTags
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The Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku ōkagami) from 1687 has twenty Samurai and twenty kabuki short stories. Saikaku urges the boys to respond to the sexual overtures of the adult Samurai and fulfil their destiny as handsome youths. Small boys were legitimate sexual partners in Japan from the era of the Samurai through to the nineteenth century.Boy prostitution was endemic in kabuki theatre.
La primera traducción completa de Nanshoku Okagami por Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), se trata de una colección de 40 historias que describen los asuntos amor homosexual entre hombres samurai y los niños, y entre los actores de kabuki jóvenes y sus clientes de clase media. El libro está ilustrado con 58 bloques de madera, preparados para la impresión original de Nansholu Okagami.
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A prolific writer of haiku, Saikaku is better known now as a writer of fiction about the life of the townspeople in his native Osaka. His style is marked by detachment, wit, and a satiric tone. A keen observer, Saikaku took as his major themes the search for love and wealth. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Original title
- 男色大鑑 : 本朝若風俗
- Original publication date
- 1687
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- Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, General Fiction
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- 895.6 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese
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- PL794 .N37 .E5 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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