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
* 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.