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| The wakashudō若衆道
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| or "way of the boys" is the traditional form of pederasty in Japan former, since at least the eighth century . Is used in the same sense elliptical shapes and nyakudō shudo衆道若道, or the terms nanshoku男色and Bido美道.
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| This social link between emotional and sexual male adult and a young boy was originally practiced by monks Buddhist , then by the samurai . Still very much alive in the nineteenth century , it is the institution pederastic most durable attested in the history of mankind.
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| =Vocabulary=
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| The pederasty may be designated in Japanese by rather different
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| terms, which have significant nuances.
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| The wakashudō
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| The word wakashudō若衆道is
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| the one whose meaning pederast is the most obvious. It consists of
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| three elements distributed as follows:
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| The final character dō道is
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| the same as the dao or tao China , pointing the way along which we
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| progress, moral art to do something to get better personally.
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| The word Wakashū若衆means
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| "young person", or rather "boy": it is indeed
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| never uses that term for a girl. It combines two characters: [1]
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| waka若"young"
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| shū衆"person"
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| The wakashudō is clearly the "way of the boys."
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| This word appeared in the seventeenth century is widely used in
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| ancient works. It is often found in the abbreviated forms shudo衆道,
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| which holds the last two characters of which there are testimonies
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| from 1485 or nyakudō若道,
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| which meets on the first and last character (若may
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| also decide Nyaku).
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| The nanshoku
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| The word nanshoku男色(which
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| also reads danshoku) takes Chinese characters nán男"man"
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| and sè色"color",
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| which together literally means "masculine colors."
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| The character 色
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| "color" refers more particularly the red
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| color of the face, so the excitement. By derivation, it means in
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| Japan and China on sexual pleasure .
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| The nanshoku term can be understood as the "manly lust"
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| or "lechery between males". It was widely used in the
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| pre-modern period to name the pederastic sex, or possibly homosexual
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| .
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| The Bido
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| Also found in a neighboring word meaning Bido美道,
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| "beautiful way", which unites the two character美"beautiful"
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| to dō道"way".
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| This is somehow the "way of the fine" - a美少年bishōnen
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| is a "beautiful boy".
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| In short, more reminiscent nanshoku pleasure, passion, virility;
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| while wakashudō and our refers to a choice philosophical and
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| search for wisdom focuses on young boys.
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| =Boy age=
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| A samurai and his young disciple (shudo tale, 1661)
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| In the pre-modern Japan, one considers a boy as available for
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| pederastic relationships only during the time it is Wakashū .
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| This period begins at the age when the head should be shaved
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| partially (maegami) between five and ten years: while the boy leaves
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| the child and can begin studies, an apprenticeship , or take a job
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| outside the home family . The status of Wakashū ends at the
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| ceremony majority (Genpuku), which marks the transition to adulthood:
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| it usually occurs during the teenage years .
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| Throughout this period, the Wakashū sports a distinctive
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| hairstyle, with a small part of his shaved skull and hair above the
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| forehead and sides. Moreover, it generally carries a kimono with open
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| sleeves. After the ceremony the majority, by contrast, the top of the
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| head is shaved, giving an adult style (chonmage), and the young man
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| must wear adult kimono with sleeves rounded.
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| Originally the Genpuku was sitting between eleven and seventeen.
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| But gradually this limit was pushed between fifteen and twenty years.
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| It could even happen that the ceremony be delayed beyond socially
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| acceptable limits, to maintain the possibility of wakashudō type
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| of link, or, in the case of young prostitutes , to extend their
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| availability. These excesses led in 1685 to the adoption of a law
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| requiring all Wakashū go through this ceremony later at the age
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| of twenty-five years.
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| Although young people were thus clearly divided into three
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| categories - child and adult Wakashū - ages defining the passage
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| from one to the other have always been relatively flexible, allowing
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| to adapt to the actual development, both physical and psychological,
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| of the boy.
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| In a treatise of the seventeenth century, Ishikawa no Soshi [2]
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| states that the partner liability of wakashudō usually has
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| between seven and twenty-five years - an average age of sixteen, who
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| seems to have been most appreciated.
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| One might think that a young Japanese of old, because of its
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| ethnic characteristics and a less abundant nutrition today, kept a
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| youthful appearance longer present a young European. On the other
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| hand, a sort of court platonic several years - five or six years -
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| was often recommended prior to "consume" the union to
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| ensure the right choice of the partner and the strength of the link:
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| the little boy seven years could sometimes wait up to twelve or
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| thirteen years to take such a step.
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| In Wakashū no haru ("Spring boys"), there is this
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| saying that restricts the desirable range - but the median age
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| remains at sixteen:
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| " From eleven to fourteen years the boy is a burgeoning
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| flower; from fourteen to eighteen is a flourishing flower; and
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| nineteen to twenty-two is drooping flower. »
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| =Japanese and Greek pederasty Wakashudō=
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| The similarities between wakashudō and pederasty Greek are
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| numerous:
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| Romantic relationships are within the framework of education
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| elitist.
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| They are structured according to a difference in age and
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| status.
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| Only man is sexually active .
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| In general intercourse cease when the youngest become adult.
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| These pederastic relationships do not exclude links
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| heterosexual nor marriage .
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| However, significant differences exist between the Japanese
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| institution and its Greek equivalent:
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| Historically, wakashudō began with concern the monks and
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| their novices, before moving to the samurai; conversely, the Greek
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| pederasty was primarily a initiation warrior, then by the myths
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| religious and philosophical backgrounds.
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| The initiative in Greece was still the fact of the adult,
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| unlike apprentices samurai who propose their future master lover .
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| When there is exchange of vows , the relationship is
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| monogamous wakashudō principle, which is not necessarily the
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| case in Greece (especially Crete , where a boy was honored to have
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| several lovers).
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| The man-boy relationships in Japan is very overtly sexual,
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| while the Greeks were often more discreet or less approvers on this
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| point.
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| The anal is quite allowed in respect of the young Japanese,
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| unlike the Greeks who were satisfied in general the intercrural
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| coitus .
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| Finally, in the traditional Japanese concepts of pederasty and
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| homosexuality are certainly close, but clearly distinct; Greece, on
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| the contrary, homosexuality between adults was seen as a variant of
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| pederasty.
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| =Literature=
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| Ihara Saikaku [3]井原西鶴or
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| Saikaku ( 1642 - 1693 ): nanshoku Okagami男色大鏡(The
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| Great Mirror of Male Love), 1689 .
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| =See as well=
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| =Bibliography=
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| "Nanshoku: male-male eroticism in Japan", in Koinos
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| Magazine, nr 40 (April 2003) and nr 41 (January 2004 /).
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| Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of desire: male-male
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| sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. - Berkerley: University
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| of California Press, 2000.
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| [Ihara Saikaku] Saïkakou Ebara. Tales of love samurai /
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| trans. Ken Sato; Patrick Raynaud drawings. - Jacques Damase, 1981.
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| 7 stories of samurai and 4 stories of actors, from the
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| glorious stories of pederasty, Stories of the samurai spirit Stories
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| duties of samurai and letters in Stories.
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| Ihara Saikaku. Amours samurai / trans. Japanese and presented
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| by Gérard Siary; with the collab. Mieko Nakajima-Siary. -
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| Arles: Philippe Picquier 1999 (Aubenas Print Lienhart.). - 250 p. :
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| Ill., Cov. Fig. col. ; 21 cm. - (The great mirror of male love: love
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| custom boy in our country; 1) (Pavilion curious body ISSN 1274-9508).
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| Trad. of the 1st part: nanshoku Okagami. - Includes
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| bibliographical references. p. 59-65. - ISBN 2-87730-451-5 (br.)
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| Ihara Saikaku. Amours actors / trans. Japanese and presented
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| by Gérard Siary; with the collab. Mieko Nakajima-Siary. -
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| Arles: Philippe Picquier, 2000 (Gemenos Print Robert.). - 217 p. :
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| Map, cov. Fig. col. ; 21 cm. - (The great mirror of male love: love
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| custom boy in our country, 2) (Pavilion curious body ISSN 1274-9508).
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| Trad. the 2nd part: nanshoku Okagami. - Glossary. - ISBN
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| 2-87730-469-8 (br.)
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| Tsuneo Watanabe, Jun'ichi Iwata The way of youths. History and
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| stories of homosexuality in Japan. - Ed. Trismegistus, 1987. -
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| (Eastern Sexuality).
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| ISBN 2-86509-024-8
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| =Related articles=
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| Bishōnen
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| Ihara Saikaku
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| Japan
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| Kūkai
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| Nanshoku Okagami (Ihara Saikaku) (The Great Mirror of Male
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| Love)
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| Samurai
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| Wakashū
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| =External links=
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| Manfred Lesgourgues conference during the Japan Week ENS,
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| recorded by France-Culture April 28, 2011: " nanshoku: pederasty
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| samurai . "
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| =Notes and references=
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| ↑ Do not confuse the word Wakashū若衆"young
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| person, boy," two characters with Wakashū和歌集"collection
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| of Japanese poems," which includes three wa和"Japanese
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| style" + ka歌"poem"
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| + shū集"reunion
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| gathering." This term appears in the title of several classic
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| anthologies.
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| ↑ To check.
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| ↑ Sometimes transcribed Saïkakou Ebara.
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