Chigo

Chigo (稚児) were adolescent boys who provided work and sexual favors to Buddhist monks in medieval Japan in exchange for housing, food and education.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Atkins, Paul S. "Chigo in the Medieval Japanese Imagination". The Journal of Asian Studies. 67 (03). doi:10.1017/S0021911808001216. ISSN 0021-9118.
  2. ^ Childs, Margaret H. (1980). "Chigo Monogatari. Love Stories or Buddhist Sermons?". Monumenta Nipponica. 35 (2): 127–151. doi:10.2307/2384336. ISSN 0027-0741.
  3. ^ Schmidt-Hori, Sachi (2009). "The New Lady-in-Waiting Is a Chigo: Sexual Fluidity and Dual Transvestism in a Medieval Buddhist Acolyte Tale". Japanese Language and Literature. 43 (2): 383–423. ISSN 1536-7827.
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