Japanese gay novels in English

Several weeks ago, I came across a few gay literatures of Japan in English at one secondhand bookstore.

One is Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saikaku Ihara and the other is Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima.

That is selective stories from Saikaku Ihara's "The great mirror of male love" and easier to read so I'm reading the book while commuting.

I also bought two more books of Ihara, Scheming World and Life of an amorous man.

What an unexpected suprise!

Even when I visited Japan this summer, I couldn't find those books.

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