In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom th

In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom th

Sexual relations between men and adolescent boys were a social institution in ancient Greece.€ This book presents the history of Greek pederasty and the schol

Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamu