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Fiorillo, John. Viewing Japanese Prints. Japanese Studies Web Site. October 14, 2000.
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/welcome.html

Gardner, William O. Selected Bibliography: Edo Visual Culture. Japanese Visual Culture Website, Middlebury College. <http://cweb.middlebury.edu/wt00/id085a/Edo/biblio.html>

Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996.


Ihara, Saikaku. Comrade Loves of the Samurai. Trans. E. Powys Mathers. Rutland, VT, 1972.

-------. Five Women Who Loved Love. Trans. W. T. DeBary. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1956.

-------. The Great Mirror of Male Love. Trans. Paul Schalow. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991.

-------. The Life of an Amorous Man. Trans. K. Hamada. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1964.

-------. The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings. Trans. Ivan Morris. New York: New Directions, 1963.

Jenkins, Donald, et al. The Floating World Revisited. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

Lane, Richard. Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1978.

Leupp, Gary P. Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of desire: male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse, 1600-1950. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Schalow, Paul Gordon. "The Invention of a Literary Traditon of Male Love: Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsuji." Monumenta Nipponica 48.1 (1993): 1-31.

-------. "Male lovers in early modern Japan: a literary depiction of the youth." Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay and lesbian past. Ed. Martin Duberman et al. New York: New American Library, 1989.

Shiveley, Donald H. "Popular Culture." The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 4: Early Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 1991. 706-767.

Seigle, Cecilia Segawa. Yoshiwara: The Glittering Wrold of the Japanese Courtesan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.


Swinton, Elizabeth de Sabato, ed. The Women of the Pleasure Quarter: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World. New York: Hudson Hills Press and the Worcerster Art Museum, 1996.