Os belos garotos

Résumé

Erotic woodcut prints from the first Edo period are analysed, along with its following translation of inserted texts from Moronobu Sugimura, Shigemasa，Settei and Harunobu which are related to the universe of love for beautiful boys, with special emphasis in their practices conceptualizacion. Stylistics resources from Japanese literary and pictorical tradition are pointed out, but in their period townsmen world updated form, and notes to its characters impertinent and satirical vocabulary are scatered out here and there.