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Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P. Leupp fills the gap with a dynamic examination of the origins and nature of the tradition. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire.
Combing through popular fiction, law codes, religious works, medical treatises, biographical material, and artistic treatments, Leupp traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai, then describes the emergence of homosexual practices among commoners in Tokugawa cities. He argues that it was "nurture" rather than "nature" that accounted for such conspicuous male/male sexuality and that bisexuality was more prevalent than homosexuality. Detailed, thorough, and very readable, this study is the first in English or Japanese to address so comprehensively one of the most complex and intriguing aspects of Japanese history.
- Sales Rank: #1576516 in Books
- Published on: 1996-01-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 6.50" w x 1.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 317 pages
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"An invaluable resource for anyone seeking a history of the representation of homosexuality in Japan."—Sandra Buckley, author of Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism
"Opens a window on the complex and varied patterns of sexual relations between males in early modern Japan. Imperative reading for anyone concerned with human sexual expression in social context."—David F. Greenberg, author of The Construction of Homosexuality
"Nanshoku—male colors—as male same-sex eroticism and sexuality were known in early modern Japan, enjoyed an honored place in the life and mythology of the age, celebrated in art and literature with as much energy and enthusiasm as male-female eroticism. Unfettered by the moral opporbium that constrained—or concealed—male-male eroticism in Europe, male colors flew brightly in the public culture of urban Japan. Gary Leupp explores the practices and the cultural celebration of the Edo-era nanshoku tradition in this exuberant, sensitive, and yet dispassionate social and cultural history of male homoeroticism, the best modern scholarly study in English to date. Leupp ranges widely in a vast array of original literary, dramatic, and visual sources, which he brings to life with a finely textured use of comparative material from other traditions of male-male love both in East Asia and across the premodern world. Highly original and insightful, it will be standard reading for years to come."—Ronald P. Toby, author of State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu
From the Back Cover
"An invaluable resource for anyone seeking a history of the representation of homosexuality in Japan." (Sandra Buckley, author of Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism)
About the Author
Gary P. Leupp is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan (1992).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
It was okay to be gay back in the day as long as you practiced it in a certain way
By Matt Lohkamp
This is a really excellent example of well-executed non-fiction. It's sensible and sensitive, humorous, reasonably paced, and justifiably exhaustive and/or brief as necessary. It's definitely an interesting read, and a good reminder that sometimes we get a little too wrapped up in what our culture believes right now, and forget that other cultures have believed other things pretty much forever. Gary Leupp covers all the different ways that homosexual behavior manifested itself in this particular era of Japan, and this has definitely piqued my interest in how other nations during other eras have treated their own confirmed bachelors.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
This explains a whole lot!
By Punychick
This book is really fascinating, if a bit pricey (Kindle).
However, it is a scholarly work and well-worth the price of research.
Especially since I've read and reread this book several times.
At each reading I find an answer to something I've always wondered about.
For example, why did Japanese nobility tend to be so warlike?
If a Lordling gives honors and offices to an undeserving Boy Toy.....
Well, you can imagine.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Thorough Research--Excellent Result
By Brian Watson
Gary Leupp's research was clearly thorough, and his end-result benefitted greatly from it. Although I already knew of both the monastic and samurai traditions of same-sex pairings, to see the extent to which this permeated Tokugawa society was fascinating. It also gave strong argument to the constructivist theory of homosexuality, which, when considered alongside biological factors, makes for a coherent picture of sexuality in society. It's clear from the work that more research can and should be done: same-sex pairings among women, and the shift from the Tokugawa to the Modern era in Japan and the resulting changes in sexuality would make for excellent books as well. One curious thing is the appendix of glossed terms in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. I for one would have appreciated more than a vocabulary list; if the notes in the text had contained the original language versions of his text, I'd have been happier.
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