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Wakashu and Lover Holding Hands

Anonymous
(1643)

Illustration from the anonymous seventeenth century work Shin-yu-ki, 'Book for the Friends of the Soul'.

A wakashu and his lover (nenja) hold hands. From Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'ichi Iwata, The Love of the Samurai, A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, Gay Men's Press, London, 1989

Wakashu and Lover Holding Hands

Anonymous
(1643)

Illustration from the anonymous seventeenth century work Shin-yu-ki, “Book for the Friends of the Soul”.

A wakashu and his lover (nenja) hold hands. From Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun’ichi Iwata, The Love of the Samurai, A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, Gay Men’s Press, London, 1989.

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