Great Mirror of Male Love

By Saikaku Ihara

Book Overview

The first complete translation of Nanshoku ōkagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), this is a collection of 40 stories describing homosexual love affairs between samurai men and boys, and between young kabuki actors and their middle-class patrons. The book is illustrated with 50 woodblocks, prepared for the original printing of Nanshoku ōkagami.

Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translating of Japanese Literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804718954
• ISBN13: 9780804718950
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"