Gay Tales of the Samurai by Saikaku Ihara, translated by E. Powys Mathers.
Gay Tales of the Samurai was written by the renowned author Saikaku Ihara (1642-1693) who recounted many tales of Samurai life from this period. The tales are said to be real accounts from life, and certainly many of them, particularly the last, read more like gossip than a constructed story.
To understand this book, you have to understand how different the world it grew from was. To quote Henry M. Christman in the introduction:
The year was 1687.
In England, King James II was on the throne, shortly to be overthrown by William and Mary. The rising young author was Daniel Defoe, whose famous work was to be The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
In America, a handful of English colonies were clinging precariously to the Atlantic coastline. William Penn had just concluded a peace treaty with the Indians.
In Japan a ten-volume illustrated work entitled Glorious Tales of Homosexuality was published.
Japan had long had a tradition of homosexual love. As with the Greeks before them, if featured love between youths, past puberty, but before becoming official men, and their older lovers. While there was a definite physical component to the romances, they were viewed to be for the purpose of instructing the young men in matters of honor and excellence. Bravery and Ardor went hand in hand in the warrior society.
Another component of these romances was the very nature of their impermanence. Just as the cherry blossom bursts forth, exquisitely beautiful, more so because its beauty lasts three days and fades, so is the beauty of youth. A young man, when he cut his bangs (the sign of being under the age of Adulthood, might not be pursued any longer, and will in fact, join the ranks of the pursuers.
That said, there are many tales that do not focus on the cult of youth, but are among men of similar age.
Gay Tales of the Samurai - Associated Content
There is rarely any more effective evidence that leftists in all their 'alities' than the freely advanced evidence advanced by the leftists themselves...
In this case, in a thread where the YOU have demanded that homosexuals HAVE NO DESIRE TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN... YOU POST A SOURCE WHICH PROVES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE HOMOSEXUAL CULTURE IS ALL ABOUT! What's more you hold it up as HISTORICAL FACT!

Keep it up sis...

YOU'RE DOING GREAT~