Ribald Classics: The Education Of A Guardsman

January, 1980

During the reign Of the Emperor Yozei, one of his personal bodyguards, named Michinori, was ordered to go to Mutsu. One night, along the way, he and his eight soldiers stopped at the house of a provincial governor. After a good dinner, the household went off to bed, but Michinori found himself wakeful and he soon arose. He walked about and finally came to a distant part of the house partitioned off by screens. The room, with its mats on the floor, a small light burning and the fragrance of incen...