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Katanas Ready

Miyagawa Choshun
(1682-1753)



Individual panel from an erotic painting on
silk done at the end of the eighteenth
century, reprinted courtesy of Dr. Richard Lane, 
in The Love of the Samurai, A Thousand Years 
of Japanese Homosexuality,
by Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'ichi Iwata.

Katanas Ready

Miyagawa Choshun
(1682–1753)



Individual panel from an erotic painting on silk done at the end of the eighteenth century, reprinted courtesy of Dr. Richard Lane, in The Love of the Samurai, A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality,
by Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun’ichi Iwata.


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