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Episode 446 - In Days of Old, There Was a Man

History of Japan

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The Tales of Esay - Chapter 63

While same sex relationships are never explicitly described in the tales of esay, there are a few chapters with some homoerotic undertones. Ariwarano narihera is clearly established as a sort of stock character who goes around seducing pretty much everything left and right. There's some humor in the final section of the text that, at least personally, i didn't see in the first two for ample,. here is a very sick burn from chapter one 20. Back then, this man learned that a woman he thought was still an engenu was actually involved with a ranking gentleman. So ye, i can definitely see it.

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