Yukio Mishima
Japanese photographer Tamotsu Yato (1925?-73) took thousands of photos between '65-'66 and published them in Young Samurai in '67. Novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-'70) wrote an eloquent introduction to the book in which he states that Yato was a bodybuilder himself who "knows the quintessence of the muscle." Mishimo and Yato were at the center of a new gay culture in Japan in the post-war years that turned away from femininity and softness and embraced hard muscularity and hyper-manliness. Bodybuilding was at the core of this new outlook, and Mishima posed boldly himself.
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