February 2020 - Tea Ceremony Kyoto

THE SIGNIFICANCES OF JAPAN’S CHERRY BLOSSOMS: PART FIVE

Post author:Tyas Sōsen
Post published:February 17, 2020
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Beauty claimed for State-mandated death-in-battle: Blossom, blossom, everywhere – yet none who pause to think

THE SIGNIFICANCES OF JAPAN’S CHERRY BLOSSOMS: PART FOUR

Post author:Tyas Sōsen
Post published:February 10, 2020
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Japan’s cherry-blossom, and a second ‘place of evil’: The Yoshiwara-quarter: a ghetto entirely dedicated to non-procreational hetero-eros

THE SIGNIFICANCES OF JAPAN’S CHERRY BLOSSOMS: PART THREE

Post author:Tyas Sōsen
Post published:February 3, 2020
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Here, we shall encounter Japan’s cherry-blossom as not only unstable in what it has been seen as embodying. Throughout Japanese cultural history, it has simultaneously embodied instability – instability of authority, of sex as ‘necessarily’ procreative, and of gender.