Taruho Inagaki
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Taruho Inagaki (稲垣 足穂, Inagaki Taruho, December 26, 1900 – October 25, 1977) was a Japanese writer.
Inagaki was born in Osaka, moved to Akashi in Hyōgo Prefecture while he was in elementary school, and spent much of his childhood in Kōbe. He graduated from Kwansei Gakuin Junior High School. In 1923 he published One Thousand and One Second Stories (Issen ichibyō monogatari), and by 1926 he was counted among members of the short-lived Shinkankakuha group of writers.[1] In 1968 he won the first annual Japan Literature Grand Prize for Shōnen'ai no Bigaku (少年愛の美学, , The esthetics of boy-love), an essay on "aesthetic eroticism", where he divides stories into A (anal), V (vaginal), P (penile) and K (clitoral) varieties[2] and "describe[s] the historical, psychological, and metaphysical ramifications of the love of beautiful boys in an eclectic blend of ideas culled from history, Freudianism, pop psychology, and existentialism."[3]
Inagaki's works often dealt with themes including flight, astronomical objects, and erotic and romantic relationships among beautiful adolescent boys. His stories on the latter topic, and his essays in Shōnen'ai no Bigaku, were an influence on early writers of the yaoi genre such as Keiko Takemiya.[4]
References
- ^ Inagaki, Taruho (1998). "Inagaki Taruho". One Thousand and One-Second Stories. Translated by Vita, Tricia. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press. pp. [162].
- ^ "Intersections: Eureka Discovers 'Culture Girls,' Fujoshi, and BL: Essay Review of Three Issues of the Japanese Literary magazine, Yuriika (Eureka)".
- ^ Angles, Jeffrey (2011). Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. University of Minnesota Press. p. 230.
- ^ Angles, Jeffrey (2011). Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. University of Minnesota Press. p. 235.
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