Pink samurai : love, marriage & sex in contemporary Japan /
Nicholas Bornoff.
- New York : Pocket Books, c1991.
- xvi, 492 p., [8] láms. : il. ; 25 cm.
Part I: New Year
1 HOTELS AND LEGENDS
The Creation Myths The Coital Genesis Death and Pollution Impurity and the Female Purification
Children of Child-like Gods
The Celestial Strip-show Red and White Love Hotels
2 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Figures in a Landscape New Year, Traditional and Televised Who Are the Japanese?
The First True Rulers
Buddhism - The Gentle Art of Persuasion
3 THE FAMILY MAINSTAYS
The Older Generation
Mother and Father
The Workaholics
The Bachelor Life Pink Samurai
Office Blossoms Playtime
4 THE MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND
The Honourable Once-over Tying the Knot
5 HIGH-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
Boys Will Be Boys Blackboard Jungle Education Mama Multiplication-the Name of the Game Hau Tsu Sekkusu - How to Sex Of Babies... ...And Birthday Suits The Genital Vocabulary What's in a Word?
Part II: The Rites of Spring
6 PHALLICISM AND FERTILITY
The Metal Phallus Shrine Kanamara-sama, the Legends The Phallus and the Sword The Jibeta Festival Phallic Buddhism Benten and Kannon Wanton and Sister of Mercy Rural Fertility Worship versus Urban Law The Phallic Stones Dosojin Today Yobai
7 HEIAN IDYLL
Life in Heian Female Lines The Invisible Woman Polygamy: More but not Merrier The Reluctant Virgin The Blind Date as a Fine Art Going by the Book The Wistaria Withers
Part III: The Venereal Equinox
8 THE EDO PERIOD The Dawn of the Samurai Trouble with Bath-Houses and Brothels
9 THE GREAT INDOORS The Shogun at Home A World Without Men Lonely Hearts Columns - the Way of Do-It-Yourself Launching the Floating World
10 THE CULTURE OF DESIRE Kabuki-the Theatre of Licence Love versus Duty The Floating World in Words Spring in Pictures Shunga Messages
11 SPRING FOR SALE La Vie en Rose-Edo Style Decorum in Dreamland The Great Harlot Queens The Flourish of Strumpets Stripping off the Finery Modernizing Japan The Yoshiwara Whitewashed Twilight on the Yoshiwara Armageddon Pan-pan and Uncle Sam
Part IV: Heatwaves in the Water Trade
12 MIZUSHOBAI-THE WATER BUSINESS The Water The Way of Drinking Shinjuku-the Postwar Pleasureland
13 THE LADIES UPSTREAM The Geisha Geisha Politics Geisha Party Fights, Finery and Affairs The Geisha Climate The Bar Hostess
14 SIRENS IN THE SILT Turkish Delights Lullaby of Soapland Nami-chan: the New Wave The Soft Sell Blind Dates and Pink Cards Love and Prostitution The Cafés and Cabarets go Pink The Hand Jive
15 STRIPPING JAPAN STYLE: THE GENITAL CIRCUS Jun Sayama - The Man Who Would Be String The Naked Theatre Open Stage Honban Manaita Show: Live on the Chopping Board The Genital Circus Enter the Law - Kind of Life Backstage
16 ON THE DARK SIDE Hard Facts and Vague Figures The Clap Trap Zegen-The Men who Conned the Pros Japayuki Riding on the Valkyries Gangsters and the Labour Market Rape Your Neighbour - Monsters in Paradise
Part V: A Quirk for all Seasons 17 THE CRUEL WORLD Toilet Tunes Blood Feast Enduring the Unendurable for Pleasure Deadlier than the Male The Phantom Seductress
18 NAKED DISSENT Defiance and Dissimulation Hidden is Beautiful Low-City Laughter Art, Dissent and Self-liberation Bleating About the Bush: Censorship in Japan Bye-bye Pink Cinema, Hello Adult Video Out of the Armpit, If It Should Honourably Please You Kuroki on Camera
19 THE REALM OF THE SEXLESS Okama-the Potted Persuasion Beautiful Death The Congress of Shellfish Dreams of Young Girls Host Clubs
Part VI: A New Era 20 THE HARD ROAD TO EQUALITY Because They're Women The Men in the Seat Lysistrata Comes to Tokyo The New Moral Order Paradise Lost A New Era for the Yamashitas