Tofugu — The Gay of the Samurai

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

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.

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. TIL that Edo-era Japane samurais nsired homosexualy as honorable, and teach them virtue unlike the love of women was g a "femizg effect" and was emed a necsy. Image urty Walker Art CenterIf you liked Brokeback Mounta, you will most certaly enjoy Taboo (Gohatto), or, as is popularly known, “The Gay Samurai Movie.

SAMURAI E OMOSSUALà: STORIA LL’ANTI GIAPPONE GAY

Dpe the wispread homosexualy of the men the samurai un, the gay love is seen by even those who engage as stctive. You see, homosexualy fdal Japan was very much like that ancient Greece. Any Society wh a highly rualised class stcture, th Master/Slave/Submissive relatnships, is bound to have some kd of homosexual activy, and the Samurai were no different.

That don’t mean all Samurai had homosexual tennci, but was not as rare as most people would probably image, given the extremely fierce image we now have of the mythicised warrrs.

Well, perhaps if the story had been more rooted realy we uld have seen that turns out, pre-morn Japan was exceptnally acceptg, even enuragg, of male homosexualy and bisexualy. I would pot to the Japane versn of Juo-Christian anti-homosexualy beliefs and ll a day. Japan’s pre-morn society was one that not only tolerated homosexualy and bisexualy, but celebrated and even ialized .