Fundoshi (褌, ふんどし) is the traditional Japanese undergarment, made from a length of cotton. Before WWII, the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for adult males. Nowadays, the fundoshi is mainly used not as underwear but as festival (matsuri) clothing at Hadaka Matsuri or, sometimes, as swimwear.
Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan, introduced in 1872, by Horace Wilson, a teacher at the Kaisei School in Tokyo. The first team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878. Baseball is called 野球 (やきゅう; yakyu) in Japanese, combining the characters for fielding & ball
The Poem of Wind and Trees (Kaze to Ki no Uta) is a shojo manga with gay themes by K. Takemiya. First published by Shougakukan from 1976 to 84 in the magazine Shojo Comic. It took 9 years for Takemiya's publishers to agree to publish it, as Takemiya refused to censor the sexual elements of the story
