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| The tradition of Japanese pederasty originated in the relationships between [[Buddhist]] and [[Shinto]] clerics and their acolytes, who were known as [[chigo]] (<font face="SimSun">[[稚児]] </font>) .
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| It was adopted in medieval times by the [[samurai]] warrior class, which utilized it as a means of acculturating young samurai into the warrior community, and as a means of reinforcing loyalty and friendship between comrades. It was known as [[Shudō]] and constructed as a Way, or [[dō]] that that had an ethic and an aesthetic, that could be transmitted, and was authoritative.
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| After the pacification of the country under the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] the tradition was borrowed by the rising townsmen classes and became increasingly commercialized.
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| A famous Pederastic couples is enumerated as follows.
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| == Asuka period ==
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| Unknown.<ref>However, it is recorded that Emperor Tenji and Fujiwara no Kamatari were in this relation in Oyamada Tomokiyo, " Nanshoku-kō ", 『男色考』However, it is recorded that Emperor Tenji and Fujiwara no Kamatari were in this relation in Oyamada Tomokiyo, " Nanshoku-kō ", 『男色考』</ref>
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| == Nara period ==
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| * [[Ōtomo no Yakamochi]] and [[Fujiwara no Kusumaro]]
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| ** The youth was the son of [[Fujiwara no Nakamaro]] a.k.a.[[Emi no Oshikatsu]].
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| * [[Ōtomo no Yakamochi]] and [[Kon no Myogun]] or [[Yo no Myogun]]
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| ** Their mutual love poems appear in the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, "[[Man'yōshū]]".
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| * [[Kūkai]] (Kōbō-Daishi) and [[Taihan]]
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| ** Kukai was the legendary founder of the Japanese male love tradition, placing this relationship around 788.
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| * [[Saichō]] ([[Dengyō Daishi]]) and Taihan
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| ** 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.
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| == Heian period ==
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| [[Image:120px-Yoshitoshi Ariwara Narihira.jpg|thumb|Ariwara no Narihira]]
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| * Shinga and [[Ariwara no Narihira]]
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| ** The relationship was between a bishop and a young aristocrat. Narihira, famous for his beauty, was a grandson of [[Emperor Heizei]], while Bishop Shinga<font face="SimSun">（</font>801 <font face="SimSun">－ </font>879) was a younger brother and disciple of [[Kūkai]].
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorimichi]] and [[Minamoto no Nagasue]]
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| ** 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.<ref>"古事談" ("Kojidan")</ref>
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| * Sensai-Shonin and [[Umewaka]]
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| ** Sensai (?-1127) was a high priest of [[Enryakuji]] temple, and Umewaka was his [[chigo]] (acolyte), and of noble birth.
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Akitaka]]
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| ** 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".
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Munemichi]]([[Akomaru]])
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Nobumichi]]
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| ** Nobumichi was the son of [[Fujiwara no Munemichi]], a former wakashu of the emperor.
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Narimichi]]
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| ** Narimichi was another son of [[Fujiwara no Munemichi]].
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Akisue]]
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Nagazane]]
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| ** Nagazane was a son of [[Fujiwara no Akisue]], the emperor's former wakashu.
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Minamoto no Toshiaki]]
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Taira no Masamori]]
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| ** Masamori would be, in due course, the grandfather of [[Taira no Kiyomori]].
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Taira no Tametoshi]]
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Morishige]]
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Tachibana no Yorisato]] ([[Imainumaru]]<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| * [[Emperor Shirakawa]] and [[Jiromaru]]
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| * [[Minamoto no Arihito]] and [[Ajimaru]]
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| ** Arihito was the nephew of [[Emperor Shirakawa]].
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Fujiwara no Ienari]]
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| ** Emperor Toba loved many beautiful youths, from aristocrats to common dancers, most of all [[Fujiwara no Ienari]], who monopolized the political<font face="SimSun">　</font>power.<font face="SimSun">　</font>The confrontation between Ienari and [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] was one of the<font face="SimSun">　 </font>causes of The [[Hōgen Rebellion]].<ref>"台記" or "The Diary of Fujiwara no Yorinaga , "続古事談", "Zoku-Kojidan"</ref>
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Fujiwara no Nobumichi]]
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| ** Nobumichi had also been the beloved of [[Emperor Shirakawa]].
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Fujiwara no Narichika]]
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| ** The youth was the son of [[Fujiwara no Ienari]], a former wakashu of the emperor.
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Hata no Kimiharu]]
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Koma no Norusuke]]
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| * [[Emperor Toba]] and [[Saigyō Hōshi]]
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Nobuyori]]
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| ** 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]].
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Narichika]]
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Taira no Sukemori]]
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Motomichi]] ([[Konoe Motomichi]])
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Taira no Narifusa]]
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| * [[Emperor Go-Shirakawa]] and [[Fujiwara no Mitsuyoshi]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Tadamasa]]
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| ** 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.<ref>"台記" or "The Diary of Fujiwara no Yorinaga"</ref>
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Tamemichi]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Kin'yoshi]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Ieaki]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Narichika]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Fujiwara no Takasue]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Minamoto no Narimasa]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Minamoto no Yoshikata]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Saeki no Sadatoshi]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Hata no Kanetoo]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Hata no Kimiharu]]
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| * [[Fujiwara no Yorinaga]] and [[Kimikata]]
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| ** Kimikata had been a male-dancer in the [[Shitennō-ji]] Temple.
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| * [[Taira no Kiyomori]] and [[Matsuoo]]
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| * [[Kumagai Naozane]] and [[Taira no Atsumori]]
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| * [[Mongaku]] (high priest) and [[Taira no Takakiyo]]([[Rokudai]])
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| * [[Shunkan]] and [[Arioo]]
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| * [[Saito Musashibō Benkei]] and [[Minamoto no Yoshitsune]]
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| * [[Minamoto no Yoshinaka]] and [[Imai Kanehira]]<font face="SimSun">（</font>1152-1184<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| ** 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.
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| == Kamakura period ==
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| * [[Emperor Go-Toba]] and [[Fujiwara no Hideyoshi]] (1184-1240, <font face="SimSun">藤原秀能</font>)
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| * [[Emperor Go-Toba]] and [[Minamoto no Michiteru]] (1187-1243<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| * [[Minamoto no Yoriie]] and [[Nakano Yoshinari]]
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| * [[Minamoto no Sanetomo]] and [[Wada Tomomori]]<ref>"吾妻鏡","Azuma Kagami)"</ref>
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| * [[Unkei]] and [[Hōjumaru]]
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| * [[Hōjō Yoshitoki]] and [[Fukami Saburoo]]
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| ** Yoshitoki was killed by Saburoo out of [[nanshoku]] jealousy .
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| * [[Hōjō Takatoki]] and [[Sasaki Takauji]]
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| * [[Yoshida Kenkō]] and [[Myōmatsumaru]]<ref>"本朝浜千鳥", Honcho Hamachidori</ref>
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| * [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] and [[Fujiwara Tametsuna]]
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| * [[Emperor Go-Daigo]] and [[Hino Kumawakamaru]] ([[Hino Kunimitsu]])<ref> ("塩尻", Shiojiri, "太平記", Taiheiki, "麓の色", Fumoto no iro</ref>
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| * [[Emperor Go-Komatsu]] and [[Umewaka]]
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| * [[Ikkyū]] and [[Shōben]]
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| ** Ikkyū was the son of [[Emperor Go-Komatsu]].
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| * [[Jikyū]]( priest of [[Kenchō-ji]]) and [[Shiragiku]] (or [[Shiragikumaru]], beautiful [[chigo]])
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| == Muromachi period ==
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| * [[Ashikaga Takauji]] and [[Aeba Myōzurumaru]] ([[Aeba Ujinao]])
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] and [[Zeami Motokiyo]]
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Nijō Yoshimoto]] and [[Zeami Motokiyo]]
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] and Ogamaru (boy-dancer)
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] and Dōami
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] and [[Rokkaku Mitsutaka]] or Kamejumaru (1365-1416)
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimochi]] and [[Akamatsu Mochisada]] (?-1427)
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimochi]] and Zōami
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshinori]] and [[Akamatsu Sadamura]] (nephew of [[Akamatsu Mochisada]])
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshinori]] and Otoami ( adopted son of [[Zeami Motokiyo]] ).
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshimasa]] and [[Akamatsu Norinao]]
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshihisa]] and [[Yūki Hisataka]]
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshihisa]] and [[Hirosawa Hisamasa]] or [[Kanze Hikojiro]]
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| * [[Hosokawa Katsumoto]] and Naitō Shirōzaemon
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| * [[Hosokawa Katsumoto]] and [[Akamatsu Masanori]]
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| ** Katsumoto's excessive love for the youth was one of the major causes of [[Ōnin War]].<ref>"応仁前記"",Onin zenki"</ref>
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| * [[Hosokawa Katsumoto]] and Yokogoshi Matasaburō
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| * [[Hosokawa Masamoto]] and [[Hosokawa Sumiyuki]] (1489-1507, son of [[Kujō Masamoto]])
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| * [[Hosokawa Takakuni]] and [[Yanagimoto Kenji]]
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Yanagimoto Kenji]] and [[Takahata Jinkurō]]
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| ** 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.
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| == Sengoku period ==
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| * [[Hōjō Ujiyasu]] and [[Hōjō Tsunashige]]
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| ** Hōjō Tsunashige was loved by Hōjō Ujiyasu.<ref>新井白石 Arai Hakuseki " 藩翰譜" "Hankan-fu"</ref>
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| * [[Ōuchi Yoshioki]] (father of [[Ōuchi Yoshitaka]]) and [[Sue Yoshikiyo]] (elder brother of [[Sue Harukata]]) and Sue Harukata.
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| * [[Ōuchi Yoshitaka]] and [[Sue Harukata]]<ref>"大内義隆軍記","Ōuchi Yoshitaka Gunki"</ref>
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| * [[Ōuchi Yoshitaka]] and two sons of [[Mōri Motonari]] ; [[Mōri Takamoto]] and [[Kobayakawa Takakage]].
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| * [[Ōuchi Yoshitaka]] and [[Sagara Taketo]]
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| * [[Saitō Dōsan]] and [[Toki Tarohoshimaru]] (son of [[Toki Yorinari]] )
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| * [[Takeda Shingen]] and [[Kosaka Masanobu]]
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| ** 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<ref>Leupp, pp.53-54</ref>
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| * [[Takeda Shingen]] and [[Uesugi Kagetora]] (or [[Hōjō Ujihide]]; son of [[Hōjō Ujiyasu]] ).
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| ** Uesugi Kagetora was reputed to be the most handsome boy in [[Kantō region]], so he was loved by both Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
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| * [[Uesugi Kenshin]] and [[Kawada Nagachika]] <font face="SimSun">（</font>1545?<font face="SimSun">－</font>1581<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| ** Uesugi Kenshin, brave [[general]] and [[daimyo]], he did not married throughout his life.
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| ** In the military epic,<ref>"Shōnen-ai no Renga Haikai shi" 1997, ISBN 4-8060-4623-x</ref> there are no grounds as the historical fact though it is insisted to Kenshin that there be a sexual relation to 600 boys.
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| * [[Uesugi Kenshin]] and his two adopted sons; [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]] (Kenshin's nephew) and [[Uesugi Kagetora]] (son of [[Hōjō Ujiyasu]]).
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| * [[Uesugi Kenshin]] and Iwai Tanbanokami
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| * [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]] and [[Naoe Kanetsugu]].<ref>新井白石 Arai Hakuseki " 藩翰譜" "Hankan-fu" ,太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"</ref>
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| * [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]] and [[Kiyono Naganori]] <font face="SimSun">（</font>1573?<font face="SimSun">－</font>1634<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| * [[Satake Yoshishige]](1547-1612) and [[Ashina Moritaka]]
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| * [[Uragami Munekage]] and [[Ukita Naoie]]
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| * [[Miyoshi Nagayoshi]] and [[Matsunaga Hisahide]]
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| * [[Matsunaga Hisahide]] and [[Yagyū Shigeyoshi]] (younger brother of [[Yagyū Muneyoshi]])
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| * [[Amago Haruhisa]] and [[Ushio buzen'nokami]]
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| * [[Amago Katsuhisa]] and [[Yamanaka Shikanosuke]]
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] and [[Matsui Sadonokami]]
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] and Oodate Iwachiyomaru
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshiteru]] and [[Minoya Koshiro]] ( the 16-year-old page )
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| * [[Imagawa Ujizane]] and [[Miura Yoshishige]].
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| * [[Imagawa Ujizane]] and two sons of Ukai Nagateru (Imagawa Ujzane's cousin); Ukai Ujinaga and Ukai Ujitsugu.
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| * [[Oyamada Masayuki]] and [[Nishina Morinobu]] (son of [[Takeda Shingen]]).
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| * [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]] and [[Ueno Masanobu]]([[Hori Magohachirō]])
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| == Azuchi-Momoyama period ==
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| * [[Oda Nobunaga]] and [[Hori Hidemasa]]
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| * [[Oda Nobunaga]] and [[Manmi Senchiyo]] ([[Manmi Shigemoto]]) (1549-1578)
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| ** Manmi Senchiyo is famous as one of the four most beautiful boys ([[bishōnen]]) in the [[Sengoku period]].<ref>"戦国美少年四天王"</ref>
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| * [[Araki Murashige]]<font face="SimSun">（</font>1535-1586<font face="SimSun">） </font>and [[Manmi Senchiyo]] ([[Manmi Shigemoto]])
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| ** Manmi Senchiyo was formerly a page to Araki Murashige. But he was so beautiful that Oda Nobunaga took him away from Araki.
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| * [[Oda Nobunaga]] and [[Hasegawa Hidekazu]] (? -1594)
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| * [[Oda Nobunaga]] and [[Maeda Inuchiyo]] ([[Maeda Toshiie]] )
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| ** 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".<ref>"亜相公御夜話" or "Night-stories of Maeda Toshiie"</ref>
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| * [[Oda Nobunaga]] and [[Mori Ranmaru]] <font face="SimSun">（</font>1565-1582<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| ** Nobunaga met his end in an ambush in 1582, at [[Honnō-ji]] temple, assassinated by [[Akechi Mitsuhide]], whose lands he had wanted to take and give to [[Mori Ranmaru]]. Ranmaru, still in his teens, died fighting by Oda's side.
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| * [[Oda Nobuyuki]] (1536 - 1557, younger brother of [[Oda Nobunaga]]) and Tsuzuki Kurando (Jujo)
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| * [[Oda Nobutoki]] (<font face="SimSun">？</font>-1556, younger brother of [[Oda Nobunaga]]) and Sakai Magoheiji
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| ** Nobunaga's brothers ruined themselves because of excessive love for their favorites.
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| * [[Akechi Mitsuhide]] and [[Akechi Samanosuke]]([[Akechi Hidemitsu]])
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| * [[Kaiho Yusho]](Kaihō Yūshō) and [[Saitō Toshimitsu]]
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| * [[Otani Yoshitsugu]] and [[Ishida Mitsunari]]
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| * [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and [[Fuwa Bansaku]]<font face="SimSun">（</font>or [[Fuwa Mansaku]],1578-1595<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| ** Hidetsugu, regent to the emperor, ended up having to commit [[seppuku]] in 1595, joined by his beloved Fuwa Bansaku.
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| ** Fuwa Bansaku is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (<font face="SimSun">三大美少年</font>[[bishōnen]]) in the [[Sengoku period]].<ref>太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"</ref>
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| * [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and [[Yamada Sanjūrō]]
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| * [[Toyotomi Hidetsugu]] and [[Yamamoto Tonomo-no-suke]]
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| * [[Gamō Ujisato]] and [[Nagoya Sanzaburō]] <font face="SimSun">（</font>1572 - 1603<font face="SimSun">） </font>
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| ** Nagoya Sanzaburō is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (<font face="SimSun">三大美少年</font>[[bishōnen]]) in the [[Sengoku period]].<ref>太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"</ref>
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| * [[Kimura Yoshikiyo]] and [[Asaka Shōjirō]]
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| ** Asaka Shōjirō is famous as one of the three most beautiful boys (<font face="SimSun">三大美少年</font>[[bishōnen]]) in the [[Sengoku period]].<ref> 太田錦城 Ota Kinjo " 梧窓漫筆" ,"Goso-manpitsu"</ref>
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| * [[Katō Mitsuyasu]] and [[Akiyama Tamon]]
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| * [[Katō Kiyomasa]] and [[Kōzuki Sazen]]
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| * [[Fukushima Masanori]] and [[Kashiwagi Unume]]
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| * [[Fukushima Masanori]] and [[Katayama Uzen]]
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| * [[Date Masamune]] and [[Katakura Kojūrō Shigetsuna]]<font face="SimSun">（</font>later [[Katakura Shigenaga]]
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| * [[Kobayakawa Hideaki]] and [[Katakura Kojūrō Shigetsuna]]<font face="SimSun">（</font>later [[Katakura Shigenaga]]
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| ** When Katakura came up to [[Kyoto]], Kobayakawa Hideaki fell in love with him at first sight and wooed him, pursuing him with intense passion.<ref>『片倉代々記』,"Katakura Daidaiki"</ref>
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| * [[Mori Katsunaga]]([[Mōri Katsunaga]])(1577<font face="SimSun">－</font>1615<font face="SimSun">）</font>and [[Yamauchi Tadayoshi]] (1592-1665, nephew and adopted son of [[Yamauchi Kazutoyo]])
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| * [[Sagawada Masatoshi]] and [[Ishikawa Jōzan]]( or [[Ishikawa Shigeyuki]], 1583-1672)
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| * [[Sakazaki Naomori]] and [[Indō Shizuma]]
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| * [[Ukita Samon]]( nephew of [[Sakazaki Naomori]]) and [[Indō Shizuma]]
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| * [[Niwa Nagashige]] and [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]
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| * [[Yoshida Kiyoie]](-1599) and [[Hirata Munetsugu]](-1599)
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| * [[Nakamura Kazutada]](1590-1609) and [[Hattori Kunitomo]]
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| * [[Nakamura Kazutada]]([[daimyō]] of [[Yonago]]) and [[Tarui Nobumasa]]
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| == Tokugawa period (Edo period) ==
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| * [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Ii Manchiyo]] ([[Ii Naomasa]])
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| ** One of many beloveds of the shogun, Manchiyo was a scion of an allied powerful clan.<ref>Louis Crompton, p.439</ref>
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| * [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Mizuno Tadamoto]] (1576-1620)
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| * [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and [[Miura Shigenari]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] and [[Naruse Masatake]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] and [[Nabeshima Tadashige]] ([[Nabeshima Naofusa]], son of [[Nabeshima Naoshige]])
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| * [[Matsudaira Tadayoshi]] (1580-1607, son of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]) and [[Ogasawara Yoshihisa]] ([[Ogasawara Kenmotsu]])
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| * [[Sakabe Gozaemon]] and [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]
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| ** The childhood friend and retainer, aged 21, was murdered by his 16-year-old beloved as they shared a bathtub, in 1620.<ref>Crompton, p.439</ref> 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.<ref> "寛明記事" ("Kanmei-kiji") or "The Chronicle from kan'ei to meireki"</ref>
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Hotta Masamori]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Sakai Shigezumi]](1607-1642)
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| * [[Abe Shigetsugu]] (1598-1651, son of [[Abe Masatsugu]]) and [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Uchida Masanobu]]
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| * [[Nakane Masamori]] (1588-1666) and [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Kaji Sadayoshi]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Asakura Toyoaki]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] and [[Takashima Sakon]]
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| * [[Matsudaira Nobutsuna]] and [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]]
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| * [[Date Masamune]] and [[Tadano Sakujurō]] ([[Tadano Katsuyoshi]])
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| ** In circa 1617 the 50 year-old [[Daimyō]] sealed a written vow of love (still in existence) with his favorite boy ([[koshō]],<font face="SimSun">小姓</font>) Tadano Sakujuro, like [[Takeda Shingen]].<ref>"Date Masamune's letters", Tokyo: Sinchosensho,1995, ISBN 4106004798 ISBN 978-4106004797</ref>
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| * [[Maeda Toshitsune]] and [[Horio Tadaharu]]
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| * [[Gamō Tadasato]](1602-1627, grandson of [[Gamō Ujisato]]) and [[Morikawa Wakasa]](extremely handsome page)
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| * [[Ishikawa Jōzan]]( or [[Ishikawa Shigeyuki]], 1583-1672) and [[Ishikawa Magojūrō]]
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| ** Jōzan passed away in his beloved Magojūrō's arms, like [[Pindar]](Pindaros).
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| * [[Miyamoto Musashi]] and [[Miyamoto Iori]] ([[Miyamoto Sadatsugu]])
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| * [[Miyamoto Musashi]] and [[Miyamoto Mikinosuke]] ([[Miyamoto Sadahide]])
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| ** Miyamoto Musashi had never married and adopted beautiful boys (Mikinosuke and Iori) as his sons, just as [[Uesugi Kenshin]] did.
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| * [[Honda Tadatoki]] and [[Miyamoto Mikinosuke]] ([[Miyamoto Sadahide]])
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| ** Honda Tadatoki loved Mikinosuke extraordinarily, so his wife [[Senhime]] was burning with jealousy. Because of her furious jealousy, Mikinosuke was unfortunally expelled.
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| * [[Matsudaira Yoshitoshi]]([[daimyō]] of [[Himeji]]) and [[Morita Zusho]]
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| * [[Kuroda Tadayuki]] (son of [[Kuroda Nagamasa]]) and [[Kurahachi Masatoshi]]
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| * [[Nabeshima Mitsushige]] and [[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]]<ref>"葉隠","Hagakure"</ref>
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| ** Yamamoto was one of [[koshō]] (<font face="SimSun">小姓</font>) pages to Mitsushige.
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| * [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] and [[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu]]
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| ** 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.
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| ** [[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]].<ref>"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</ref>
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| * Moriwaki Gonkuro and Mashida Toyonoshin
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| ** 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.<ref>Rictor Norton, Ed. My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries; pp.71-72</ref>
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| * [[Asano Naganori]] and [[Kataoka Takafusa]](1667-1703)
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| * [[Asano Naganori]] and [[Isogai Masahisa]] (1679-1703)
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| * [[Asano Naganori]] and [[Tanaka Sadajirō]]
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| ** 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.<ref>"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.</ref>
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| * [[Kira Yoshinaka]](<font face="SimSun">吉良上野介義央</font>) and [[Shimizu Ichigaku]] (1678 - 1703)
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| * [[Ōishi Yoshio]](<font face="SimSun">大石内蔵助良雄</font>) and [[Segawa Takenojō]].
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| ** Ōishi Yoshio, the top hero of [[Chūshingura]], played with [[kabuki]] actors and [[kagema]] in [[Kyōto]]. Takenojō, kagema actor, was one of them.
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| * [[Aiyama Kōnosuke]] (1686-?) and [[Ōishi Chikara]] (<font face="SimSun">大石主税良金</font>,1688 - 1703).
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| ** 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.
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| * [[Matsuo Bashō]] and [[Tsuboi Tokoku]](a.k.a. [[Mangikumaru]] (circa 1657<font face="SimSun">～</font>1690)
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| * [[Maeda Yoshinori]] and [[Ōtsuki Tomomoto]] (1703-1748)
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| * [[Tokugawa Ienobu]] and [[Manabe Akifusa]]
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| * [[Hiraga Gennai]] and [[Yoshizawa Kuniishi]]
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| ** Hiraga Gennai loved [[kabuki]] actors and [[kagema]] very much. He had never married.
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| * [[Tokugawa Ieshige]] and [[Tanuma Okitsugu]]
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| * [[Tokugawa Ieharu]] and [[Mizuno Tadatomo]] (1731-1802)
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| * [[Tokugawa Ienari]] and [[Mizuno Tadaakira]] (1763-1834)
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| == Meiji period ==
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| * [[Saigō Takamori]] and [[Murata Shinpachi]]
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| ** Murata, who lived from 1836 to 1877, was reputed to be very beautiful in his youth.
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| * [[Ōkubo Toshimichi]] and [[Murata Shinpachi]]
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| ** 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.[[[citation needed]]]
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| == References ==
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| {{reflist|2}}
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| == Sources ==
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| * Ihara Saikaku (Paul Gordon Schalow, trans.). ''The Great Mirror of Male Love.'' Stanford University Press, 1990. [[ISBN 978-0804718950]]
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| * Leupp, Gary. ''Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan.'' University of California Press, 1997. [[ISBN 978-0520209008]]
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| * Pflugfelder, Gregory. ''Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950.'' University of California Press, 2000. [[ISBN 978-0520251656]]
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| * Watanabe, Tsuneo et Jun'ichi Iwata, ''La voie des éphèbes: histoire et histoires des homosexualités au Japon.'' Paris, 1987. [[ISBN 2865090248]]
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| * Watanabe, Tsuneo and Jun'ichi Iwata. ''The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality.'' GMP, London, 1989. [[ISBN 0-85449-115-5]]
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| * Miller, Stephen D. (edited), ''Partings at Dawn : An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature.'' 1996. [[ISBN 0-940567-18-0]]
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| * Hanafusa Shiro, ''Nanshoku-ko,'' 1928.
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| * Inagaki Taruho, ''Inagaki Taruho Taizen 2,'' 1969.
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| * Domoto Masaki, ''Nanshoku Engeki-shi,'' 1970.
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| * Domoto Masaki, ''Nanshoku Engeki-shi,'' (New rev.), 1976.
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| * Iwata, Jun'ichi, ''Honcho Nanshoku-ko,'' 1974.
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| * Iwata, Jun'ichi, ''Nanshoku bunkenshoshi,'' 1973.
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| * Minakata Kumagusu, ''Minakata Kumagusu Zenshu 9,'' 1973.
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| * Hasegawa Kozo and Tsukikawa Kazuo (eds.), ''Minakata Kumagusu nanshoku dangi,'' 1991. [[ISBN 4896946138]]
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| * Iwata, Jun'ichi, ''Honcho Nanshoku-ko & Nanshoku bunkenshoshi,'' 2002. [[ISBN 4562034890]]
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| * Sunaga Asahiko, ''Bishōnen Nihonshi,'' 2002. [[ISBN 4336043981]]
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| * Sunaga Asahiko et al.(eds.), ''Shomotsu no Okoku 8; Bishōnen,'' 1997. [[ISBN 4336040087]]
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| * Sunaga Asahiko et al.(eds.), ''Shomotsu no Okoku 9; Ryoseiguyu,'' 1998. [[ISBN 4336040095]]
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| * Sunaga Asahiko et al.(eds.), ''Shomotsu no Okoku 10; Doseiai, 1999. [[ISBN 4336040109]] ''
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| * Hanasaki kazuo, ''Edo no Kagemajaya,'' 1980, 1991.
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| * Hanasaki kazuo, ''Edo no Kagemajaya,'' (New rev.), 2002. [[ISBN 4895222853]]
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| * Hanasaki kazuo, ''Edo no Kagemajaya,'' (New rev.), 2006. [[ISBN 4895224708]]
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| * Ujiie Mikito, ''Bushido to Eros 1995. [[ISBN 406149239x]] ''
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| * Ujiie Mikito, ''Edo no Seidan,'' 2003. [[ISBN 4062683857]]
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| * Hiratsuka Yoshinobu, ''Nihon ni okeru Nanshoku no Kenkyu,'' 1983.
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| * Shibayama Hajime, ''Edo Nanshoku-ko,'' 3 vol. 1992-1993. [[ISBN 4826501501]], [[ISBN 4826501528]], [[ISBN 482650151x]]
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| * Saneyoshi Tatsuo, ''Honcho Bishōnen-roku,'' 1993. [[ISBN 4875199155]]
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| * Kakinuma Eiko, Kurihara Chiyo et al. (eds.), ''Tanbi-Shosetsu, Gay-Bungaku Book Guide,'' 1993. [[ISBN 4893673238]]
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| * Shunroan Shujin (Watanabe Shin'ichiro), ''Edo no Shikido; Nanshoku-hen,'' 1996. [[ISBN 4916067177]]
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| * Watanabe Shin'ichiro, ''Edo no Keibo-jutsu,'' 2005. [[ISBN 4106035472]]
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| * Koishikawa Zenji (edited), ''Nanshoku no minzokugaku,'' [[ISBN 4826503830]]
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| * Koishikawa Zenji (edited), ''Gei no minzokugaku,'' [[ISBN 4826504357]]
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| * [[Timon Screech]], Takayama Hiroshi(translat.), ''Shunga,'' 1998. [[ISBN 4062581280]]
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| Look up [[pederastic]] in [[Wiktionary]], the free dictionary.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Dō]]
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| * [[nanshoku]]
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| * [[shudo]]
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| * [[chigo]]
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| * [[kassiki]]
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| * [[Ihara Saikaku]]
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| * [[Samurai]]
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| * [[paiderastia]]
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| == External links ==
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| * SOURCE FOR THIS ARTICLE:http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Pederastic_couples_in_Japan
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