The Life of an Amorous Man (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Hirayama Tōgo
- First Published: 1683
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Picaresque
- Time of Work: The early seventeenth century (during the Tokugawa period, 1603-1867)
- Setting: Japan
- Genres: Long fiction, Picaresque fiction
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Seventeenth century, Adventure, Japan or Japanese people, Hedonism, Pleasure
- Locales: Japan
Characters Discussed
Yonosuke, “Man of the World,” the son of a wealthy playboy businessman and a courtesan of the pleasure quarter in Kyoto who settle down into domesticity after marriage. Precocious concerning love and sex, Yonosuke has his calligraphy teacher copy down his first love letter at the age of seven. As a teenager, he engages in numerous escapades in his search for pleasures of the flesh. Finally, his father disowns him when he is nineteen years old. For the next fifteen years, Yonosuke engages in a variety of occupations, such as salmon peddler, Shinto...
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