аннотация/annotation:

This book is a collection of almost 40 stories depicting homosexual relationship between adult men and adolescent boy in 17th Japan. It covers different social background but the most common target is a samurai class. Those stories are full of passion and sometimes ends like proper eastern romance should...with utter tragedy and demise of both parties, here you can insert some gory Japanese tradition. How ever it is worth of reading to understand view on homosexuality in history of Japan