Tell your friends about this item:
The Great Mirror of Male Love
Ihara Saikaku
The Great Mirror of Male Love
Ihara Saikaku
Stories of homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys and between young kabuki actors and their patrons held broad appeal in pre-modern Japanese culture. An independent popular writer, Saikaku wrote "Nanshoku Okagami" in 1687 with the intention of extending his readership.
380 pages, index
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 1, 1991 |
ISBN13 | 9780804718950 |
Publishers | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Dimensions | 213 × 139 × 25 mm · 506 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Schalow, Paul Gordon |