Nineteenth-Century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire.
In Licentious Fictions , Daniel Poch investigates the significance of Ninjo in defining the literary modernity of Nineteenth-Century Japan..
Nineteenth-Century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire