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Recently I had a chance to read Ramuneikki by Sansuke Yamada. If you have read my previous posts, you would know, by now, how I love his artwork. His artwork, though seemingly raw and simple, is very lively and well-proportioned. (c) Sansuke Yamada, photo from Amazon(Japan) I almost bought this book just because he drew some figures for the book. Anyway, Ramuneikki is filled with short stories which were previously published through magazines. Each time I turned the page, I was suprised to see how freely his mind goes when he creates. I ENVY him!!

Comics compilation by Kazuhide Ichigawa(市川和秀). Various affairs were portrayed in this book: those of between sports team mates, between colleagues and so on.

This book contains 3 Korean artists' erotic paintings. I found it in one second-handed book store and bought it with the expectation that it "could" contain some male-to-male eroticas. But what a shame, it didn't!!! I have other books containg many erotic Japanese paintings. And one of the main themes is homosexuality. Because homosexual activities were found any time, any place. According to one Chinese book, it was more than just common to have gay loves in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. I don't know if the publisher of this book intentionally excluded homosexual erotica or not. But I think that there were some homosexual erotica, even in the Chosun Dynasty.