Ribald Classic: Love And A Lion

April, 1976

Graced with manners pleasing to women, virile and handsome, Kyo, by the age of 18, had gathered a full ditty box of fingernails sent to him by women as pledges of their devotion. He then made the error of falling in love with a beautiful courtesan named Ichi-no-jo and, as a result, he was thrown out of his father's house, disinherited and banished.Kyo wandered to the town of Kyoto and there found employment as an apprentice to a merchant named Kyuemon. Having no loves to distract him, Kyo applie...