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DESCRIPTION:Daigoji nanshoku-e [Daigoji’s Illustrations of male-male love
 ]\, more commonly known as Chigo no sōshi [A booklet of acolytes] (ca. 13
 21) is a collection of five stories characterized by caustic humor and sex
 ually explicit images of chigo’s (adolescent boy acolytes) infidelities 
 to their master priests. In the literary tradition of medieval chigo monog
 atari (acolyte tales)\, this work is of great importance in that it reflec
 ts a master priest’s perspective and furnishes vivid depictions men’s 
 sexual fantasies with chigo. My presentation will argue the following: fir
 st\, that in addition to being a source of erotic stimulation and entertai
 nment\, Chigo no sōshi served to alleviate the anxieties of its producer 
 (most likely an abbot of Daigoji) and his peers - anxieties caused by thei
 r disciples’ lack of sexual attraction for them\, their aging bodies and
  decreasing sexual potency\, and the realization that the post-graduation 
 future of their young disciples would be much brighter than was their temp
 orary acolyteship at the monastery. Second\, I will argue that in the illu
 strations of Chigo no sōshi\, the style of representing youthful bodies m
 akes it clear that homoeroticism between a chigo and an adult male emulate
 d certain norms of heterosexuality\; namely\, chigo were idealized for the
 ir visual resemblance to women. In other words\, Chigo no sōshi marks a s
 tark contrast to the pederastic arts of ancient Greece\, which idealize tr
 ansgenerational male homoeroticism by dissociating it from (a less desirab
 le) heterosexuality. This difference suggests that the courtly masculinity
  of premodern Japan was strongly associated with feminine aesthetics. \n\n
 Bio\nSachi Schmidt-Hori was born in Kanazawa\, Ishikawa\, in Japan and gre
 w up in Tokyo. She received her PhD in Japanese literature from the Univer
 sity of Washington\, Seattle\, in 2012. She is assistant professor of Japa
 nese literature at Dartmouth College and teaches courses in Japanese liter
 ature\, culture\, and sociolinguistics. Her research focuses on literary a
 nd visual representations of gender\, sexuality\, and power in ancient and
  medieval Japanese texts and illustrations. Her book manuscript\, Tales of
  Idolized Boys: Transgenerational Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Mona
 steries\, examines medieval Japanese romantic and religious tales on Buddh
 ist acolytes. Her second book will examine the transformations of ideal fe
 mininities and masculinities in the literary tradition of Japan from the e
 ighth through the nineteenth century. \n\nFlyer | RSVP
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, East Asian Seminar Room (110C)
SUMMARY:"Chigo no sōshi": A Homoerotic Handscroll of Five Buddhist Acolyte
 s from 14th-Century Japan
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/chigo_no_soshi_a_homoerotic_ha
 ndscroll_of_five_buddhist_acolytes_from_14th-century_japan
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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