The Gay of the Samurai Remember the popular scene The Last Samurai where Ken Watanabe and Tom Cise make sweet, tenr love? You don’t? Well, perhaps if...
Contents:
- MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
- TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
- SAMURAI E OMOSSUALà: STORIA LL’ANTI GIAPPONE GAY
MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
If you liked Brokeback Mounta, you will most certaly enjoy Taboo (Gohatto), or, as is popularly known, "The Gay Samurai Movie." Director Nagisa Oshima explor the brewg passn * samurai gay *
For example, there is a pretty famo book the 男色大鑑 Nanshoku Okagami, om the 15th century, (the great mirror of male love) om the very famo poet Ihara Saikaku that spoke about homosexual stori between samurais (and kabi actors and others). From wikipedia's article on Homosexualy Japan:. to the dified system of age-stctured homosexualy known as.
Anyway, the attu toward homosexualy has always been que different om the wtern world.
TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
To better unrstand the ncept, I'll add that shudō 衆道 (which is monly translated as homosexualy) is posed by the kanji SHU wh kun readg (kun-yomi) oo. How homosexualy was wispread Samurai cultureThe Art of Shunga. However, a key distguishg factor samurai culture was nanshoku, homosexualy among way of adolcent boysIn Japane Shtoism and Buddhism, homosexual and heterosexual sex wasn’t owned upon.
SAMURAI E OMOSSUALà: STORIA LL’ANTI GIAPPONE GAY
Buddhists had a ncept lled nanshoku, where a young boy entered to a homosexual relatnship wh olr monks. When the relatnship end, a lifelong bond of iendship would velop between the two former Edo Perd beme known as the goln era for wakashudo, where many thors created some of the most famo homoerotic lerary works like Denbu Monogatari (Story of a Boor) and The Great Mirror of Male Love. Wternizatn: the end of homosexualy.