Open AccessOs belos garotos
Author(s) -
Madaletsuko Hashimoto Cordaro
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
estudos japoneses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-7125
pISSN - 1413-8298
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2447-7125.v0i30p67-85
Subject(s) - woodcut , period (music) , vocabulary , stylistics , literature , art , humanities , history , philosophy , art history , linguistics , aesthetics
Erotic woodcut prints from the first Edo period are analysed, along with its following translation of inserted texts from Moronobu Sugimura, ShigemasaSettei and Harunobu which are related to the universe of love for beautiful boys, with special emphasis in their practices conceptualizacion. Stylistics resources from Japanese literary and pictorical tradition are pointed out, but in their period townsmen world updated form, and notes to its characters impertinent and satirical vocabulary are scatered out here and there.