About this episode

This episode explores early LGBTQ+ stories from Japan up to the end of the Meiji Period.

RJL is excited to bring you this two-parter about LGBTQ+ stories from Japan. Part one covers some of the earliest writing in Japanese through the end of the Meiji Period in 1912. Part two (coming soon) covers Taisho Japan (when women finally enter the stage) through some of Japan's contemporary queer writers. This episode is rated mature. CW for the two-part series: historical accounts of practices today recognized as pedophilia and pederasty, mentions of suicide and suicidal ideation (fic...

People in this episode

Host: Alison Fincher

Topics covered

• LGBTQ+ literature
• Japanese history
• Meiji Period
• queer writers
• cultural narratives

Keywords

• LGBTQ+
• Japan
• Meiji Period
• queer literature
• historical accounts

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: LGBTQ+ Stories from Japan

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