A Bibliography of Nanshoku Literature

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"男色文献書志"

Iwata, Junichi [edited by].

Tōkyō: Koten Bunko, Shōwa 31 [1956]. First edition.

A detailed bibliography of references to nanshoku themes in Japanese literature by artist and researcher Iwata Junichi (1900-1945), published posthumously through the efforts of author and critic Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965). This first edition lists a total of 1,093 texts mentioning or featuring nanshoku relationships, starting with Ise Monogatari (ca. 951 according to Iwata) and ending with Kabukishi no Kenkyū, published in 1943, the year Iwata finished his manuscript. The most important nanshoku bibliography to have been published in Japan, and one of a limited edition of 350 copies not for public sale, in nice condition.

Original green buckram boards. Browning to endpapers, light foxing to textblock edges. Housed in original slipcase, slightly soiled, crease to spine. Volume 4 of the Kinsei Bungei Shiryō series. 1 v., complete. 272 p. 18.7 x 13.4 cm.

A Bibliography of Nanshoku Literature
Price: $245.00 (USD)