Tag: Japan

• Saving Face: Death, Necropolitics and the Hiroshima Maidens

  

  Dr Becky Alexis-Martin introduces the Hiroshima Maidens. Their happiness was fundamental to state in diverting attention from the harm caused by the American attack upon Hiroshima. They were given a Western “rebirth” in the USA, their otherness neutralised by reconstructing them socially, culturally, and to some extent even physically in the image of the American…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/03/2018

  Guest Post

  Aesthetic, Atomic Bomb, Death, Gender, Gender Roles, Hibakusha, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Maidens, Japan, Media, Necropolitics, USA, Victims, War, Western Perception, World History

• Katabira no Tsuji – The Crossroad of Corpses

  When the Empress died at the age of 64—still beautiful—her last will and testament was opened, and shocked the entire royal family. Instead of a state funeral and proper internment, the Empress requested that her body be garbed in the simplest cloth, then flung onto the streets. When people saw her delicate flesh rot away,…

  Death and the Maiden

  12/10/2015

  Guest Post

  Beauty, Buddhism, Buddhist, Corpse, Culture, Death Customs, Decay, History, Impermanence, Japan, Katabira no Tsuji, Kyuaizu, Mizuki Shigeru, Tachibana no Kachiko, Teachings, Yurei, ZackDavisson