Ihara Saikaku
The Great Mirror of Male Love (男色大鏡 "Nanshoku Ōkagami"), with the subtitle "The Custom of Boy Love in Our Land" (本朝若風俗 "Honchō Waka Fūzoku") is a collection of homosexuality stories by Ihara Saikaku, published in 1687. The collection belongs to Ihara's floating world genre of Japanese literature (浮世草子 Ukiyo-zōshi), and contains eight sections; each section contains five chapters, making 40 chapters in total.