The Eternal Night: Homosexuality and the Sin of Azunai in Ancient Japanese Myth
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The Eternal Night: Homosexuality and the Sin of Azunai in Ancient Japanese Myth
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Long before the celebrated traditions of Buddhist monastic nanshoku or samurai wakashudō, Japan's founding chronicle, the Nihon Shoki, recorded a very different kind of story: two Shinto priests, Shinu no Hafuri and Amano no Hafuri, buried together after one died of grief following the other's death — an act the eighth-century text frames not as devotion, but as a sin serious enough to darken the sky. This episode traces the story from its origins in Book Nine of the Nihon Shoki through its twentieth-century rediscovery by folklorist Iwata Jun'ichi, who made it a foundation stone of queer Japanese history, and the scholarly pushback that has complicated his reading ever since — along with a look at the gender-fluid kami Inari, and a correction of a common myth about the shirabyōshi.
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Image credit: KENPEI. (2008, December 20). Niutsuhime-jinja dai2-3honden [Photograph]. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niutsuhime-jinja_dai2-3honden.jpg.