![]() Toshiie was a tall beautiful boy when he started to serve Nobunaga. It is quite known that Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) loved his page, Maeda Toshiie. Nanshoku Ookagami is now available as a comic if you are not encouraged to read the original version. ![]() Saikaku called the boys who passed their youth “miserable sakura leaves” or “chipped moon” and sadly, most of those beautiful lovers ended up with having seppuku or becoming a monk after realising how empty the life was. In Edo period, it was very important that the boys were “beautiful" and it was emphasised in the book all the time. Saikaku depicted the love between samurai, particularly adult samurai and teenage “beautiful” boys or the Lord and his young “beautiful” assistants. Ihara Saikaku (井原西鶴) known as a poet and a creator of the “floating world”genre of Japanese prose ( ukiyo-zoshi) wrote Nanshoku Ookagami (男色大鑑/The Great Mirror of Male Love) in 1687. Unfortunately Yorinaga wasn’t so poetic as his nature and in the diary, it was written as 遂本意了 (finally my intension succeeded). At the end he tricked Takasue and managed to have a sex with him. In stead of giving up, Yorinaga got a talisman and prayed every night. Yorinaga was quite a passionate man and once when he fell in love with Fujiwara no Takasue (藤原隆季), he kept sending love letters that made Takasue scared. From this diary, we can know with whom Yorinaga had relationships and how he approached them. He was such a beautiful boy and his father’s Chinese assistant loved him so much that he sent a love letter to young Yakamochi.įujiwara no Yorinaga (藤原頼長), known as Akusafu (悪左府/evil Minister of the Left) left his sex life with guys in a diary, Taiki (台記). Otomono Yakamochi (大伴家持) is one of the greatest poet in Nara period (710-794). Danshoku (男色/men’s homosexuality) or Shudo (衆道/ homosexuality between samurai) was accepted in the society and it was even a part of the culture. However, sex wasn’t any shame in the past. ![]() Even a couple holding hands was seen as bad until recently. The Japanese sex industry is quite well-known but in the daily life, kissing on the street or talking about sex openly are taboo. Despite all sex industry such as soopu (soap land), kyabakura (cabaret clubs), hosuto kurabu (host clubs), pinkusaron (pink salon) and so on. In ancient Japan, people were more open to sex unlike the present Japan.
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