Tagame poetics

Who finds Gengoroh Tagame (op. cit.), in his natural state and not when writing and illustrating a G-rated novella about lovable musclebear dads, a bit much? I can barely get through his English blog.

Nonetheless, after the manner of Mishima, when viewed in translation many of Gengoroh-san’s story titles are unexpectedly poetic.

• The Afterstory of the Mountain Cottage Training Camp

• The Army of Fallen Tears

• A Boy in Hell

• Company Slave Elegy

• Dissolve

• Nº 1 with a bullet: Do You Remember the South Island POW Camp?

• The Fallen Rugby Player

• Father and Son in Hell

• The Flower Garden of Bondage

• The Flying Dutchman

• The Gamefowl in Darkness

• The House of Brutes

• In the Chest

• The Long Lonely Night

• The Midnight Business

• The Mountain Cottage Training Camp

• The Nonulcer Dyspepsia (apparently for real)

• The Protégé

• Purgatorio

• The Rasp

• Run, My Horse, Run!

• The Silent Shore

• The Silver Flower

• Slave Training Summer Camp

• The Soldier’s Brave Blood

• The Song for Defeated Samurai

• Standing Ovations

• The Unpatriotic Boy

• The Vast Snow Field

• The Winter Fisherman Lodge

• The Yakuza’s Brave Blood

• The Yoke of Shadow