¡Hisahito is a Hottie!

Having just read, and re-read, Ihara Saikaku's Great Mirror of Nanshoku--and lots of other legalistic and scholarly struff on the Edo Period, and in general, of Japanese history--and being a fan, I'd like to remind his young Imperial Majesty that there have been, before, young imperial majesties who had special friends who were seven or eight (or nine or ten) years older than they were. And it certainly didn't do them any harm.