This is a quibble, but I think a fascinating one. The idea behind actors being prostitutes wasn't just focused on females, but one rooted in fact: during the Edo era, kabuki players would often supplement their income as male prostitutes.
Check this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagema) out.
Sorry to post that here, but I'm not really up to registering at tpop
Well, yes, but I was talking specifically about female actors and not going into kabuki. I've only got 800-1000 words; I have to focus pretty narrowly. :D
Like I said, it was a quibble, and I generally don't like to point out quibbles, except that I am, uncomfortably so for my heterosexual american maleness, nontheless fascinated with Japanese sexuality in general and samurai sexuality in particular.
Hee. :D No prob, just wanted to explain why I said it that way. XD
I was twisted by Pink Samurai many years ago when it was first published, although I think I've come across criticism of it sometime in the past few years. I think I'm remembering that title correctly...
I read a book a few years ago that was set mostly at the Takarazuka Music Academy, from the point of view of a young American woman teaching English there... I think it was called "Realia." I don't remember it well but I think it was a rather frustrating book, way too much "these people are so strange" eyerolling by the viewpoint character, but the parts about the Academy and the Revue were really fascinating and I always meant to look up less biased information about it. Thanks!
Oh, I should qualify that it was a novel, and as I recall not a very good one -- probably not worth paying much for. But I could be biased or remembering wrong anyway. *^_^* I think I picked it up on the clearance table of the bigbox bookstore, and have since passed in on to the used bookstore.
I was under the impression that it was a novel, for some reason. If I run across it, it'd be worth skimming just to read the novelist's impressions, although I'm not breaking my back too much to find it. :)
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Check this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagema) out.
Sorry to post that here, but I'm not really up to registering at tpop
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(Quibble with the Tpop layout: doesn't it get spelled "cel" in animation, and "cell" in prisons and crosswords?)
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Like I said, it was a quibble, and I generally don't like to point out quibbles, except that I am, uncomfortably so for my heterosexual american maleness, nontheless fascinated with Japanese sexuality in general and samurai sexuality in particular.
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I was twisted by Pink Samurai many years ago when it was first published, although I think I've come across criticism of it sometime in the past few years. I think I'm remembering that title correctly...
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I read a book a few years ago that was set mostly at the Takarazuka Music Academy, from the point of view of a young American woman teaching English there... I think it was called "Realia." I don't remember it well but I think it was a rather frustrating book, way too much "these people are so strange" eyerolling by the viewpoint character, but the parts about the Academy and the Revue were really fascinating and I always meant to look up less biased information about it. Thanks!
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And thanks! Now I want to find a performance of theirs* and watch it - the whole thing is fascinating.
* With English subtitles, natch. No matter how cool it is, my tolerance for a play in a language I don't understand is real damn low.
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