The Great Mirror of Male Love Author:Ihara Saikaku, Paul Schalow (Translator) Nanshoku Okagami translated by Paul Gordon Schalow. — 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 inten... more »tion of extending his readership.
"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese Studies
Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.« less