Bridges to nowhere: Yasuda Yojuro's language of violence and desire

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Bridges symbolize the attempt to join art and life, or the spiritual and material realms, in the 1936 essay 'Japanese Bridges' by Yasuda Yojuro. Yasuda's writing borders on fascism in the way it valorizes self-sacrifice as the way to a spiritual transformation that could resolve the paradoxes of modern life. However, Yasuda never completely advocates action in the manner of fascism. The bridge for Yasuda suggests movement and a link between the material and non-material realms, although it remains a stationary material object.

Analysis, Japan, Bridges, Bridges (Structures), Literature, Violence, Fascism and literature, Fascism, Violence in literature, Yasuda Yojuro

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From woman warrior to peripatetic entertainer: the multiple histories of Tomoe

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Tomoe Gozen in 'Heike monogatari' is a woman warrior in Japanese cultural history. Tomoe was renowned for her beauty and physical strength, but also for her archery skills. The death of her lover, Kiso no Yoshinaka, has elicited disagreements between scholars who cannot decipher what happened to the warrior thereafter.

Women, Heike monogatari (Book)

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