Tofugu — The Gay of the Samurai

samurai and homosexuality

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...

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TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI

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. 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.i, wh the meang of many, great numbers (ooi 's the mon adjective to say "many", even if the kanji is rarely ed), and DOU, kun readg michi, which is road, the same as judo, taekwondo, kendo, bhido ecc. However, sce then, there have been no laws Japan banng homosexual ’s important to note that, until very recently, sexual acts Japan were not lked to sexual inty.

In other words, men who had sex wh men and women who had sex wh women did not nsir themselv gay or lbian. Sexual orientatn was neher polil nor policized Japan until recently, when a gay inty emerged the ntext of HIV/AIDS activism the 1990s. Today, there are annual gay pri paras major ci like Tokyo and Japan, same-sex relatns among children and adolcents have long been thought of as a normal phase of velopment, even today.

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