Abstract
In the January '95 issue of Japanese Literature Tetsuo Go argued in his "Friendship of Manyo-Otomo-no-Yakamochi and Homosexuality" that the friendship between Yakamochi and Ikenushi was one of homosexual love. I argued against Go's view in the November '95 issue of the same journal. My interpretation was that Yakamochi and Ikenushi intentionally followed the pattern of "exchange" between the cousins of Reiun and Keiun shown in Bunsen. Go once again maintained the existence of homosexual love between Yakamochi and Ikenushi in a recent issue of Interpretation of Japanese Literature and Research on Class Matericals. In this essay, I will counter Go's view from the perspective of "the sentimental novels" of the Chinese Six Dynasties Era.