Five Women Who Loved Love (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Hirayama Tōgo
- First Published: 1686
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Japan
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Capital punishment, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Seventeenth century, Theft, Japan or Japanese people, Apprentices
- Locales: Japan
Characters Discussed
The First Story
Seijuro, a handsome young man apprenticed to a shopkeeper. Reluctantly, he returns the love of his master’s sister. They elope and are discovered. Wrongly convicted of stealing money (actually mislaid), Seijuro is executed.
Onatsu, the shopkeeper’s sister, who is in love with Seijuro. After his execution, she goes mad for a time and later enters a nunnery.
The Second Story
Osen, the young wife of a cooper. Wrongly accused of adultery by Chozaemon’s wife, she takes impulsive revenge...
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