{"id":11217,"date":"2012-04-02T02:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2012-04-02T02:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T01:46:01","slug":"tamotsu-yatos-men-with-katanas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/02\/tamotsu-yatos-men-with-katanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamotsu Yato&#8217;s men with katanas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/5election.com\/2011\/01\/07\/tamotsu-yato-???-born-of-homoerotic-photography-in-60s-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yato1.jpg\" alt=\"yato1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Unidentified model from Otoko (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two photos by Tamotsu Yato (c. 1928\u20131973), a pioneer of homoerotic photography in Japan who published his work in three collections: <em>Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan<\/em> (1967), <em>Naked festival: A Photo-Essay<\/em> (1969), and <em>Otoko: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male<\/em> (1972). Yukio Mishima introduced the first two volumes, and also appeared in the first posing with a sword. The third book was dedicated to Mishima&#8217;s memory. <a href=\"http:\/\/5election.com\/2011\/01\/07\/tamotsu-yato-???-born-of-homoerotic-photography-in-60s-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">This site<\/a> has a selection from each of the books while <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkinsology.org\/ty\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Hawkins&#8217; site<\/a> has a fascinating overview of the photographer&#8217;s life and work. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thombeau.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Form is Void<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/5election.com\/2011\/01\/07\/tamotsu-yato-???-born-of-homoerotic-photography-in-60s-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/yato2.jpg\" alt=\"yato2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Yukio Mishima from Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan (1967).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-men-with-swords-archive\/\">The men with swords archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/23\/forbidden-colours\/\">Forbidden Colours<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/28\/mishimas-rite-of-love-and-death\/\">Mishima\u2019s Rite of Love and Death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified model from Otoko (1972). Two photos by Tamotsu Yato (c. 1928\u20131973), a pioneer of homoerotic photography in Japan who published his work in three collections: Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan (1967), Naked festival: A Photo-Essay (1969), and Otoko: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male (1972). Yukio Mishima introduced the first two volumes, and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/04\/02\/tamotsu-yatos-men-with-katanas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tamotsu Yato&#8217;s men with katanas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,36,5,12],"tags":[63,3576,625],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-eye-candy","category-gay","category-photography","tag-swords","tag-tamotsu-yato","tag-yukio-mishima"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2UV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}