XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: davidjohnston29@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2019-07-29 9:51 a.m., Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 7/29/19 8:08 AM, David Johnston wrote:   
   >> On 2019-07-29 8:36 a.m., Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>>          Yukibana no Tora                Ongoing 0.0   
   >>>   
   >>> Author: HIGASHIMURA Akiko   
   >>>   
   >>> Genres: Drama Seinen Historical Gender Bender   
   >>>   
   >>> The life of daimyo Uesugi Kenshin commanded authority and fear during   
   >>> the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In this retelling, the   
   >>> powerful lord is reimagined as a woman.   
   >>>   
   >>>          July 28, 2019   
   >>>          1) the author - have liked nearly all of her work.  I   
   >>> haven't seen all of it.   
   >>>   
   >>>      2) the subject.  I have seen the NHK Taiga drama "Furin Kazan"   
   >>> related to this character and many features of the story accord with   
   >>> the manga author's somewhat understated premise. Kenshin acted during   
   >>> life more like a lady than a man.  Never married or took concubines   
   >>> so no direct heirs.  In the drama this is seen as Buddhist devotion   
   >>> but Buddhism never demanded celibacy from the devout.   
   >>   
   >> Buddhism did have a monastic tradition.   
   >   
   >      Yes it did but while the child was raised and educated in   
   > a Buddhist institution Buddhism did not impose Celibacy even on   
   > the monks who generally were noted for pedophilic behavior but   
   > were also given to drink and whoring.   
      
   The lecherous monk is a fictional standard in Japan, but it's funny   
   because it's transgressive.  Monks were lecherous but they weren't   
   supposed to be.   
      
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