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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 Junichi Iwata, The Love
of the Samurai, A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality,
Gay Mens Press, London, 1989.
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