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
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TOFUGU — THE GAY OF THE SAMURAI
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... * samurai gay culture *
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.
MOVIES | “TABOO,” THE GAY SAMURAI MOVIE
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.
Historilly speakg Japan, there are many exampl of LGBT+ people and practic that were prent, a proment and most-ced example beg that was monplace and even a part of samurai culture to be gay relatnships. Unr prsure, openly gay and lbian relatnships; wrgs and art of them too - began to disappear.
Wh the Jja Shto sphere, I know an ordaed prits who is a trans woman, and openly bi and gay prits too. In addn, even some of the nature-spir and anctral kami themselv were viewed and are still viewed as beg gay. For example, an excerpt om “Male Colors: The Constctn of Homosexualy Tokugawa Japan” by Gary Lpp wr, “Durg the Tokugawa perd, some of the Shto gods, pecially Hachiman, Myosh, Shmei and Tenj, "me to be seen as guardian i of nanshoku” (male–male love).