Gohatto = Tabú

"Binnen de Japanse samoeraimilitie in Kyoto 1865 zorgt een androgyne jongen voor onrust."
""Set in Kyoto in the spring of 1865 ... Those hoping to be chosen as new samurai recruits must face off against the best man in the militia, Soji Okita. ... only two are chosen: Hyozo Tashiro, a low-level samurai from the Kurume clan, and Sozaburo Kano, a bewitching young man to whom Tashiro is immediately attracted to."--Container."
"A picture of life in a Samurai compound in the Shogun era as an androgynous young recruit so inflames the passions of his Shinsegumi comrades that they consider death a small price to pay for his favours. The school's master has to choose whether to intervene."
"In 1865 Kyoto, a handsome new recruit causes sexual tension in a traditional samurai militia group, Shinsengumi, at the end of the Shōgunate era in Japan."
""Young recruit Kano joins the elite fighting force Shinsengumi and realises that he has become the object of desire amoungst his fellow comrades. Whilst the samurai adhere to a set of strict rules, the senior members of the militia have a growing concern of the consequences of Kano's effect on the other samurai."--Container."