Both in China and in Japan played an important role in the eroticism of the development of the novel. The work of a Japanese nobleman of the Heian period, which is often referred to as "the world's first novel," pursued the many affairs of the hero in a discreet, but physical language. The novel even more explicit from the Ming dynasty is regarded as one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Is celebrated in Japan since its formation, while Jin has long been suppressed, and replaced as pornography on the classics list.