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. 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.
WERE SAMURAI GAY? OR BISEXUAL?
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 .
How the world did Japan go om celebratg homosexual liftyl to beg nial about LGBT issu even existg? #homosexualy.