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product_id: 20178914
title: "The Great Mirror of Male Love"
brand: "ihara saikakupaul gordon schalow"
price: "€ 50.38"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 13
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# The Great Mirror of Male Love

**Brand:** ihara saikakupaul gordon schalow
**Price:** € 50.38
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- **What is this?** The Great Mirror of Male Love by ihara saikakupaul gordon schalow
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## Customer Reviews

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    if you are inherently disgusted by a relationship between a 15 year old and ...
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2016*

if you are inherently disgusted by a relationship between a 15 year old and a 45 year old EVEN IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT, i can completely understand and respect that, but i have no idea why you would read the *entire* book and leave bad reviews like "i was tricked into reading this book!"...just say "i got to page xyz and was surprised by an unacceptable age-gap relationship and had to close it! heads up!" you're allowed to close a book, my guy!that said, this is: a great translation, a great (but of course *extremely* dramatized) glimpse into a facet of edo society that most history books since 1868 have tried to gloss over, a great read, and occasionally, a great comedy (intentional and not).example:in one story, two beautiful samurai obtain a nightingale from a reclusive bird-hoarding ronin; they later return to his house and declare their love, and demand that he love both of them back. he refuses. they throw off their kimonos to reveal they tattooed his name on themselves (family name on one, given name on the other). his reaction is, understandably, "wtf lol". the samurai are sad and try to stab themselves. the ronin recants. he bites off the last joint on each pinky finger (!!) and gives one to each samurai. then they began their lovely threesome relationship in the bird house, probably for the rest of their lives.all of the stories are pretty bite-sized (uh, no pun intended), but because of dramatized and lionized self-mutilation and/or suicide (also an understandably touchy point) and some stories with abuse, i rated it as "some violence".

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    An important and often very beautiful and moving work
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2013*

"Great Mirror of Male Love" is Saikaku's longest work, and we would probably recognize it as his best, if homophobic critrics had not been throwing dust in our eyes for a century or more.  It does not have a continuous plot--it is a collection of what we moderns would call "short-short stories" rather than a novel.  But almost all of the stories are interesting (I admit that a few are not, but only a handful) and some of them are deeply moving.  As far as I know this is the most recent translation of any Saikaku work, and it was published some twenty years ago--what gives?

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    Historical treasure
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2016*

This book is as much a course on Japanese history as it is a collection of very short non-erotic stories. The extensive introduction and footnotes bring Japan of the era to life and give the reader an overview of an extremely interesting era. It also offers some insight into current Japanese society.

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