Session 9: Homoeroticism and Modernity from Kansei to Showa Organizer and Chair: Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London Discussant: Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Columbia University To the best of our knowledge, no AAS panel has dealt with inter-male desire. But this is a field of wide-ranging implications. We propose four papers on the theme of homoeroticism, and how definitions, prohibitions and ...

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Fallen Warriors as Mass Media Stars: Representations of Heike Monogatari in the Edo Period Part V: Atsumori: Ideal Warrior of the Eighteenth Century The images of warriors presented in the previous section should in no way be taken as representative of the typical output of the early ukiyo-e artists. In fact, with the exception of book illustration, in which warriors were quite frequently ...

Oshiro Mifune, the popular actor famed for his characterizations of quick-witted, taciturn samurai, never uttered a word about it. Akira Kurosawa, the well-known movie director, kept inscrutably mum. Not one of the many hundreds of samurai movies made in the past century even as much as hinted at it nanshoku, the love of the samurai*. From its pivotal position in the education, code of honor, ...