Historical boylove relationships in Japan

   See also: Pederastic couples in classical antiquity for ancient Greece, Rome, Carthage and Persia
   See also: Historical pederastic couples

Contents [hide]

   1 Asuka period
   2 Nara period
   3 Heian period
   4 Kamakura period
   5 Muromachi period
   6 Sengoku period
   7 Azuchi-Momoyama period
   8 Tokugawa period (Edo period)
   9 Meiji period
   10 References
   11 Sources
   12 See also
   13 External links

[edit] Asuka period

   Emperor Tenji and Fujiwara no Kamatari[1]

[edit] Nara period

   Ōtomo no Yakamochi and Fujiwara no Kusumaro
       The youth was the son of Fujiwara no Nakamaro a.k.a.Emi no Oshikatsu.
   Ōtomo no Yakamochi and Kon no Myogun or Yo no Myogun
       Their mutual love poems appear in the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, "Man'yōshū".
   Kūkai (Kōbō-Daishi) and Taihan
       Kukai was the legendary founder of the Japanese male love tradition, placing this relationship around 788.
   Saichō (Dengyō Daishi) and Taihan
       Although Taihan was Saicho's favorite pupil and promised to be the successor of archibishop in Tendai Buddhism, also around 788, he went to study Shingon Buddhism under Kukai. No matter how insistently Saicho asked Taihan to come back, his entreaties were useless (several letters are extant). Wholly devoted to Kukai, Taihan became one of the Ten Disciples of Kukai and never went back to Saicho. Indignant, Saicho severed his connection with Kukai, after which these two greatest founders of Japanese Buddhism sects remained at odds.

[edit] Heian period Ariwara no Narihira Ariwara no Narihira

   Shinga and Ariwara no Narihira
       The relationship was between a bishop and a young aristocrat. Narihira, famous for his beauty, was a grandson of Emperor Heizei, while Bishop Shinga（801 － 879) was a younger brother and disciple of Kūkai.
   Fujiwara no Yorimichi and Minamoto no Nagasue
       The Regent Yorimichi loved the boy exceedingly, therefore Nagasue was not admitted to celebrate his coming-of-age ceremony (and wear adult attire and tonsure) for a long time, although he had fully grown up.[2]
   Sensai-Shonin and Umewaka
       Sensai (?-1127) was a high priest of Enryakuji temple, and Umewaka was his chigo (acolyte), and of noble birth.
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Akitaka
       Emperor Shirakawa loved many handsome boys, especially Fujiwara no Akitaka who was called to the Emperor's presence every night, and all of whose requests were granted; Akitaka was nicknamed "Regent of the Night".
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Munemichi(Akomaru)
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Nobumichi
       Nobumichi was the son of Fujiwara no Munemichi, a former wakashu of the emperor.
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Narimichi
       Narimichi was another son of Fujiwara no Munemichi.
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Akisue
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Nagazane
       Nagazane was a son of Fujiwara no Akisue, the emperor´s former wakashu.
   Emperor Shirakawa and Minamoto no Toshiaki
   Emperor Shirakawa and Taira no Masamori
       Masamori would be, in due course, the grandfather of Taira no Kiyomori.
   Emperor Shirakawa and Taira no Tametoshi
   Emperor Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Morishige
   Emperor Shirakawa and Tachibana no Yorisato (Imainumaru）
   Emperor Shirakawa and Jiromaru
   Minamoto no Arihito and Ajimaru
       Arihito was the nephew of Emperor Shirakawa.
   Emperor Toba and Fujiwara no Ienari
       Emperor Toba loved many beautiful youths, from aristocrats to common dancers, most of all Fujiwara no Ienari, who monopolized the political　power.　The confrontation between Ienari and Fujiwara no Yorinaga was one of the　 causes of The Hōgen Rebellion.[3]
   Emperor Toba and Fujiwara no Nobumichi
       Nobumichi had also been the beloved of Emperor Shirakawa.
   Emperor Toba and Fujiwara no Narichika
       The youth was the son of Fujiwara no Ienari, a former wakashu of the emperor.
   Emperor Toba and Hata no Kimiharu
   Emperor Toba and Koma no Norusuke
   Emperor Toba and Saigyō Hōshi
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Nobuyori
       Emperor Go-Shirakawa had many love relationships with handsome youths, including several nobles and some samurai. The Emperor dearly loved Nobuyori. His boundless love toward his favorite boy was one of the major causes of the Heiji Rebellion.
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Narichika
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Taira no Sukemori
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Motomichi (Konoe Motomichi)
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Taira no Narifusa
   Emperor Go-Shirakawa and Fujiwara no Mitsuyoshi
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Tadamasa
       Fujiwara no Yorinaga was a famous male-lover. In his diary there are many mentions on his erotic life with many men and boys. Fujiwara no Tadamasa (1129 - 1193), a young nobleman, was not only one of Yorinaga's lovers, but also Yorinaga's father Fujiwara no Tadazane's lover.[4]
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Tamemichi
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Kin'yoshi
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Ieaki
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Narichika
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Fujiwara no Takasue
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Minamoto no Narimasa
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Minamoto no Yoshikata
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Saeki no Sadatoshi
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Hata no Kanetoo
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Hata no Kimiharu
   Fujiwara no Yorinaga and Kimikata
       Kimikata had been a male-dancer in the Shitennō-ji Temple.
   Taira no Kiyomori and Matsuoo
   Kumagai Naozane and Taira no Atsumori
   Mongaku (high priest) and Taira no Takakiyo(Rokudai)
   Shunkan and Arioo
   Saito Musashibō Benkei and Minamoto no Yoshitsune
   Minamoto no Yoshinaka and Imai Kanehira
       Yoshinaka adored Imai so much that he wanted to die with him since they were children according to the Heike Monogatari and Zeami Motokiyo's nohplay "Kanehira". In the end they both died together in Awazu.

[edit] Kamakura period

   Emperor Go-Toba and Fujiwara no Hideyoshi (1184-1240, 藤原秀能)
   Emperor Go-Toba and Minamoto no Michiteru (1187-1243）
   Minamoto no Yoriie and Nakano Yoshinari
   Minamoto no Sanetomo and Wada Tomomori[5]
   Unkei and Hōjumaru
   Hōjō Yoshitoki and Fukami Saburoo
       Yoshitoki was killed by Saburoo out of nanshoku jealousy .
   Hōjō Takatoki and Sasaki Takauji
   Yoshida Kenkō and Myōmatsumaru[6]
   Emperor Go-Daigo and Fujiwara Tametsuna
   Emperor Go-Daigo and Hino Kumawakamaru (Hino Kunimitsu)[7]
   Emperor Go-Komatsu and Umewaka
   Ikkyū and Shōben
       Ikkyū was the son of Emperor Go-Komatsu.

   Jikyū( priest of Kenchō-ji) and Shiragiku (or Shiragikumaru, beautiful chigo)

[edit] Muromachi period

   Ashikaga Takauji and Aeba Myōzurumaru (Aeba Ujinao)
   Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Zeami Motokiyo
       In the shudō tradition, most shōguns took boys as lovers. Zeami caught the eye of his patron (then 16) at 11, in 1374. He became a playwright, father of Noh theater.
   Nijō Yoshimoto and Zeami Motokiyo
   Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Ogamaru (boy-dancer)
   Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Dōami
   Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and Rokkaku Mitsutaka or Kamejumaru (1365-1416)

   Ashikaga Yoshimochi and Akamatsu Mochisada (?-1427)
       Shogun Yoshimochi, son of Yoshimitsu, granted lands which his beloved mismanaged. His own family denounced him, and he had to commit seppuku by order of his lover, the shogun.
   Ashikaga Yoshimochi and Zōami

   Ashikaga Yoshinori and Akamatsu Sadamura (nephew of Akamatsu Mochisada)
       For love of Sadamura, Shogun Yoshinori lost his life in 1441, assassinated by Akamatsu Mitsusuke , whose lands he had wanted to take and give to Sadamura.
   Ashikaga Yoshinori and Otoami ( adopted son of Zeami Motokiyo ).

   Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Akamatsu Norinao
       Norinao, granted lands at the time in possession of Yamana Sozen, was attacked by the latter and took his own life. The conflict ballooned into the Ōnin civil war of 1467.

   Ashikaga Yoshihisa and Yūki Hisataka
   Ashikaga Yoshihisa and Hirosawa Hisamasa or Kanze Hikojiro

   Hosokawa Katsumoto and Naitō Shirōzaemon
   Hosokawa Katsumoto and Akamatsu Masanori
       Katsumoto's excessive love for the youth was one of the major causes of Ōnin War.[8]
   Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yokogoshi Matasaburō
   Hosokawa Masamoto and Hosokawa Sumiyuki (1489-1507, son of Kujō Masamoto)

   Hosokawa Takakuni and Yanagimoto Kenji
       Takakuni, despite having sworn eternal love to Kenji, allowed Kenji's brother to be murdered. Later Kenji rose in vengeance against him with an army.
   Yanagimoto Kenji and Takahata Jinkurō
       Knowing Kenji prepared a rebellion, Jinkuro vowed silence, but refused to break his allegiance to Lord Takakuni, warning Kenji that despite their love, he would not hesitate to kill him in battle.

[edit] Sengoku period

   Hōjō Ujitsuna and Hōjō Tsunashige
   Hōjō Ujiyasu and Hōjō Tsunashige
       Hōjō Tsunashige was loved by both Hōjō Ujitsuna and Ujitsuna's son Hōjō Ujiyasu.

   Ōuchi Yoshioki (father of Ōuchi Yoshitaka) and Sue Yoshikiyo (elder brother of Sue Harukata) and Sue Harukata.
   Ōuchi Yoshitaka and Sue Harukata[9]
   Ōuchi Yoshitaka and two sons of Mōri Motonari ; Mōri Takamoto and Kobayakawa Takakage.
   Ōuchi Yoshitaka and Sagara Taketo

   Saitō Dōsan and Toki Tarohoshimaru (son of Toki Yorinari )
   Takeda Shingen and Kosaka Masanobu
       In 1543 the 22-year-old future Daimyo sealed a written vow of love (still in existence) with his 16-year-old retainer, who served him as samurai in battle and page in peacetime.[10]

   Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kagetora (or Hōjō Ujihide; son of Hōjō Ujiyasu ).
       Uesugi Kagetora was reputed to be the most handsome boy in Kantō region, so he was loved by both Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.

   Uesugi Kenshin and Naoe Kanetsugu
   Uesugi Kenshin and Kawada Nagachika （1545 － 1581）
       Uesugi Kenshin, brave general and daimyo, made a sacred vow that he would not have sex with any woman, and he did not married(heterosexual marriage) throughout his life, like Epaminondas.
       Some maintain that Kenshin had sexual relation with 600 boys.[11]

   Uesugi Kenshin and his two adopted sons; Uesugi Kagekatsu (his nephew ) and Uesugi Kagetora (son of Hōjō Ujiyasu).

   Uesugi Kenshin and Iwai Tanbanokami

   Uesugi Kagekatsu and Naoe Kanetsugu
   Uesugi Kagekatsu and Kiyono Naganori （1573～1634）.
       Uesugi Kagekatsu was exclusively fond of boys and abstained from relationship with ladies and women at all. At last, however, at the age of 50 , he got the only child Uesugi Sadakatsu by a fair woman in male attire, just like Al-Amin , Al-Hakam II and Muhammed VI (1360-1362).[12]
   Satake Yoshishige(1547-1612) and Ashina Moritaka

   Date Terumune and Katakura Kagetsuna

   Uragami Munekage and Ukita Naoie

   Miyoshi Nagayoshi and Matsunaga Hisahide
   Matsunaga Hisahide and Yagyū Shigeyoshi (younger brother of Yagyū Muneyoshi)

   Amago Haruhisa and Ushio buzen'nokami

   Amago Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Shikanosuke

   Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Matsui Sadonokami
       Sadonokami remained as the Shogun's lover until he reached adulthood, when he entered the service of the Hosokawa family, where his descendants can be found to the present day.
   Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Oodate Iwachiyomaru
       The Jesuit Father Luis Frois writes of the 13-year-old (15-year-old in Japanese document) page's seppuku upon the death of his lord, the Shogun in 1565.
   Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Minoya Koshiro ( the 16-year-old page )

   Imagawa Ujizane and Miura Yoshishige.
   Imagawa Ujizane and two sons of Ukai Nagateru (Imagawa Ujzane's cousin); Ukai Ujinaga and Ukai Ujitsugu.

   Oyamada Masayuki and Nishina Morinobu (son of Takeda Shingen).

   Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ueno Masanobu(Hori Magohachirō)

[edit] Azuchi-Momoyama period Maeda Toshiie Maeda Toshiie

   Oda Nobunaga and Mori Ranmaru （1565-1582）
       Both perished in an ambush in 1582, Ranmaru, still in his teens, fighting by Oda's side.
   Oda Nobunaga and Hori Hidemasa
   Oda Nobunaga and Manmi Senchiyo (Manmi Shigemoto) (1549-1578)
       Manmi Senchiyo is famous as one of the four most beautiful boys (bishounen) in the Sengoku period.[13]
   Araki Murashige（1535-1586） and Manmi Senchiyo (Manmi Shigemoto)
       Manmi Senchiyo was formerly a page to Araki Murashige. But he was so beautiful that Oda Nobunaga took him away from Araki.

   Oda Nobunaga and Hasegawa Hidekazu (? -1594)
   Oda Nobunaga and Maeda Inuchiyo (Maeda Toshiie )
       Maeda Toshiie was very attractive as a boy, so at the age of 15 he became Oda Nobunaga's favorite and was always with him day and night. Afterwards at a celebration banquet in 1576, Oda Nobunaga related his reminiscences and told him "You were my very favorite boy indeed, and every night slept with me on the same bed(futon)" holding Toshiie's beard with smile. Listening to his memoirs, all samurai warriors and daimyo at the banquet were envious of Toshiie's good luck, and remarked with one voice "Bravo Maeda Toshiie! You exremely lucky man, because you were profoundly loved by our lord prince Nobunaga".[14]

   Oda Nobuyuki (1536 - 1557, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga) and Tsuzuki Kurando (Jujo)
   Oda Nobutoki (？-1556, younger brother of Oda Nobunaga) and Sakai Magoheiji
       Nobunaga's brothers ruined themselves, because of excessive love for their favorites.
       Nobunaga himself also met his end at Honnō-ji temple, assassinated by Akechi Mitsuhide, whose lands he had wanted to take and give to Mori Ranmaru.

   Akechi Mitsuhide and Akechi Samanosuke(Akechi Hidemitsu)
   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Ishida Mitsunari
       Although some people slander that Hideyoshi did not have good taste in shudo , he loved many beautiful youths.
   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobutada (the eldest son of Oda Nobunaga)

   Kaiho Yusho(Kaihō Yūshō) and Saitō Toshimitsu

   Otani Yoshitsugu and Ishida Mitsunari

   Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Fuwa Bansaku（or Fuwa Mansaku,1578-1595）
       Hidetsugu, regent to the emperor, ended up having to commit seppuku in 1595, joined by his beloved Fuwa Bansaku.
       Fuwa Bansaku is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (三大美少年bishounen) in the Sengoku period.[15]
   Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Yamada Sanjūrō
   Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Yamamoto Tonomo-no-suke
   Gamō Ujisato and Nagoya Sanzaburō （1572 - 1603）
       Nagoya Sanzaburō is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (三大美少年bishounen) in the Sengoku period.[16]
   Kimura Yoshikiyo and Asaka Shōjirō
       Asaka Shōjirō is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (三大美少年bishounen) in the Sengoku period.[17]

   Katō Mitsuyasu and Akiyama Tamon

   Katō Kiyomasa and Kōzuki Sazen
   Fukushima Masanori and Kashiwagi Unume
   Fukushima Masanori and Katayama Uzen

   Date Masamune and Katakura Kojūrō Shigetsuna（later Katakura Shigenaga

   Kobayakawa Hideaki and Katakura Kojūrō Shigetsuna（later Katakura Shigenaga
       When Katakura came up to Kyoto, Kobayakawa Hideaki fell in love with him at first sight and wooed him, pursuing him with intense passion.[18]

   Mori Katsunaga(Mōri Katsunaga)(1577－1615）and Yamauchi Tadayoshi (1592-1665, nephew and adopted son of Yamauchi Kazutoyo)

   Sagawada Masatoshi and Ishikawa Jōzan( or Ishikawa Shigeyuki , 1583-1672)
   Sakazaki Naomori and Indō Shizuma
   Ukita Samon( nephew of Sakazaki Naomori) and Indō Shizuma

   Niwa Nagashige and Tokugawa Hidetada

   Yoshida Kiyoie(-1599) and Hirata Munetsugu(-1599)

[edit] Tokugawa period (Edo period) Tanuma Okitsugu Tanuma Okitsugu

   Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ii Manchiyo (Ii Naomasa)
       One of many beloveds of the shogun, Manchiyo was a scion of an allied powerful clan.[19]
   Tokugawa Ieyasu and Mizuno Tadamoto (1576-1620)
   Tokugawa Ieyasu and Miura Shigenari

   Tokugawa Hidetada and Naruse Masatake
   Tokugawa Hidetada and Nabeshima Tadashige (Nabeshima Naofusa, son of Nabeshima Naoshige)

   Matsudaira Tadayoshi (1580-1607, son of Tokugawa Ieyasu) and Ogasawara Yoshihisa (Ogasawara Kenmotsu)

   Sakabe Gozaemon and Tokugawa Iemitsu
       The childhood friend and retainer, aged 21, was murdered by his 16-year-old beloved as they shared a bathtub, in 1620.[20] Sakabe was killed by Tokugawa Iemitsu, because he (Sakabe) had embraced and played with other boys in the bath. These boys were pages to Iemitsu.[21]
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Hotta Masamori
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Sakai Shigezumi(1607-1642)
   Abe Shigetsugu (1598-1651, son of Abe Masatsugu) and Tokugawa Iemitsu
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Uchida Masanobu
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Yagyū Tomonori (1612-1639, son of Yagyū Munenori)
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Yagyū Mitsuyoshi (1607-1650, son of Yagyū Munenori)
   Nakane Masamori (1588-1666) and Tokugawa Iemitsu
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Kaji Sadayoshi
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Asakura Toyoaki
   Tokugawa Iemitsu and Takashima Sakon
   Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Tokugawa Iemitsu

   Date Masamune and Tadano Sakujurō (Tadano Katsuyoshi)
       In circa 1617 the 50 year-old Daimyō sealed a written vow of love (still in existence) with his favorite boy (koshō,小姓) Tadano Sakujuro, like Takeda Shingen.[22]

   Maeda Toshitsune and Horio Tadaharu

   Gamō Tadasato(1602-1627, grandson of Gamō Ujisato) and Morikawa Wakasa(extremely handsome page)

   Ishikawa Jōzan( or Ishikawa Shigeyuki , 1583-1672) and Ishikawa Magojūrō
       Jōzan passed away in his beloved Magojūrō's arms , like Pindar(Pindaros).
   Miyamoto Musashi and Miyamoto Iori (Miyamoto Sadatsugu)
   Miyamoto Musashi and Miyamoto Mikinosuke (Miyamoto Sadahide)
       Miyamoto Musashi had never married and adopted beautiful boys (Mikinosuke and Iori) as his sons, just as Uesugi Kenshin did.
   Honda Tadatoki and Miyamoto Mikinosuke (Miyamoto Sadahide)
       Honda Tadatoki loved Mikinosuke extraordinarily, so his wife Senhime was burning with jealousy. Because of her furious jealousy, Mikinosuke was unfortunally expelled.
       However faithful Mikinosuke, knowing Honda Tadatoki's death, killed himself by seppuku (junshi).

   Kuroda Tadayuki (son of Kuroda Nagamasa) and Kurahachi Masatoshi

   Nabeshima Mitsushige and Yamamoto Tsunetomo[23]
       Yamamoto was one of koshō (小姓) pages to Mitsushige.
   Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
       Yoshiyasu served the shogun, 12 years his senior, from ca. 1660 at an early age, and both played major roles in the incident of the 47 ronin of 1701.
       Tokugawa Tsunayoshi loved boys profoundly just like his father Tokugawa Iemitsu. Tsunayoshi had the special harem of which all the members were beautiful boys, and maintained sexual relationships with more than 150 handsome youths. Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu(one of Tsunayoshi's ex-lovers) kept many beautiful boys in his premises and every time shogun Tsunayoshi visited his(Yoshiyasu's) mansion, he presented them to the shogun like Madame de Pompadour's Parc-aux-cerfs.[24]
   Moriwaki Gonkuro and Mashida Toyonoshin
       On being challenged to a duel in 1667 by a man whose advances he had rejected, sixteen year old Toyonoshin appeals to his thirty one year old lover, with whom he has been in relationship for three years, for assistance. The two end up fighting and defeating the interloper and his henchmen, then prepare for seppuku to atone for having killed the lord's men, only to be forgiven by the lord for their valor.[25]
   Asano Naganori and Kataoka Takafusa(1667-1703)
   Asano Naganori and Isogai Masahisa (1679-1703)
   Asano Naganori and Tanaka Sadajirō
       Asano Naganori , like other daimyōs, loved many handsome boys very much. And the cause of the Forty-seven Ronin incident was a trouble associated with shudō. When Kira Yoshinaka wanted Asano's beautiful youth Hibiya Ukon, Asano rejected flatly. Indignant Kira, accordingly began to bother Asano one after another.[26]
   Kira Yoshinaka(吉良上野介義央) and Shimizu Ichigaku (1678 - 1703)
   Ōishi Yoshio(大石内蔵助良雄) and Segawa Takenojō.
       Ōishi Yoshio,the top hero of Chūshingura, played with kabuki actors and kagema in Kyōto. Takenojō, kagema actor, was one of them.
   Aiyama Kōnosuke (1686-?) and Ōishi Chikara (大石主税良金,1688 - 1703).
       Ōishi Chikara,son of Ōishi Yoshio and youngest member of Forty-seven Ronin, suggested by his father to go and play with prostitute in 1702, without hesitation rushed to brothel in Kyōto and bought a male-prostitute named Aiyama Kōnosuke. Chikara and Kōnosuke did swear eternal love. In 1703 as soon as Chikara killed himself by seppuku, Kōnosuke became a buddhist monk and prayed for the repose of Chikara's soul.
   Matsuo Bashō and Tsuboi Tokoku(a.k.a. Mangikumaru (circa 1657～1690)

   Maeda Yoshinori and Ōtsuki Tomomoto (1703-1748)
   Tokugawa Ienobu and Manabe Akifusa
   Hiraga Gennai and Yoshizawa Kuniishi
       Hiraga Gennai loved kabuki actors and kagema very much. He had never married.
   Tokugawa Ieshige and Tanuma Okitsugu
   Tokugawa Ieharu and Mizuno Tadatomo (1731-1802)
   Tokugawa Ienari and Mizuno Tadaakira (1763-1834)

[edit] Meiji period

   Saigō Takamori and Murata Shinpachi
       Murata, who lived from 1836 to 1877, was reputed to be very beautiful in his youth.
   Ōkubo Toshimichi and Murata Shinpachi
       Both Saigō and Ōkubo fell in love and competed with each other for the boy's hand. Hence these two heroes became rivals and conflicted throughout their lives, as Themistocles and Aristides did.

[edit] References

   ^ Oyamada Tomokiyo, " Nanshoku-kō ", 『男色考』
   ^ "古事談" ("Kojidan")
   ^ "台記" or "The Diary of Fujiwara no Yorinaga , "続古事談", "Zoku-Kojidan"
   ^ "台記" or "The Diary of Fujiwara no Yorinaga"
   ^ "吾妻鏡","Azuma Kagami)"
   ^ "本朝浜千鳥", Honcho Hamachidori
   ^ ("塩尻", Shiojiri, "太平記", Taiheiki, "麓の色", Fumoto no iro
   ^ "応仁前記"",Onin zenki"
   ^ "大内義隆軍記","Ōuchi Yoshitaka Gunki"
   ^ Leupp, pp.53-54
   ^ "Shonen-ai no Renga Haikai shi" 1997, ISBN 4-8060-4623-x
   ^ "Oueikei-gunki"
   ^ "戦国美少年四天王"
   ^ "亜相公御夜話" or "Night-stories of Maeda Toshiie"
   ^ 太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"
   ^ 太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"
   ^ 太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"
   ^ 『片倉代々記』,"Katakura Daidaiki"
   ^ Louis Crompton, p.439
   ^ Crompton, p.439
   ^ "寛明記事" ("Kanmei-kiji") or "The Chronicle from kan'ei to meireki"
   ^ "Date Masamune's letters", Tokyo: Sinchosensho,1995, ISBN-10: 4106004798 ISBN-13: 978-4106004797
   ^ "葉隠","Hagakure"
   ^ "三王外記""Sanno gaiki"or "The secret history of the three rulers", 御当代記" or "The history of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi",etc.
   ^ Rictor Norton, Ed. My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries; pp.71-72
   ^ "Seichu bukan","誠忠武鑑","Chugi Bukegirimonogatari","忠義武家義理物語","Chugi Taiheiki-taizen","忠義太平記大全",etc.

[edit] Sources

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[edit] See also

   nanshoku
   shudo
   chigo
   kassiki
   Ihara Saikaku
   Samurai
   paiderastia