08-05-2008, 04:03 PM
Quote:Where did you read that Paul? I have to admit, in all the books I've read on samurai and katana, as well as swordforum or samuraihistoryforum, I've never heard of that.
Saikaku wrote a series of works on the contemporary Samurai class. His first book on samurai in 1687 "Nanshoku Okagami" "The Great Mirror of Manly Love" is dominated by homosexual affairs.
I may be wrong in calling this homosexuality, and implying with the modern term that it is among equals, since Nanshuko would seem to be between man and boy as with greeks, while Doseiaia is the word for man-man intercourse (Joshuku is with women). In the Meji reform, a wave of homophobia seems to have occurred.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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