Más info sobre el "Tercer género" del Japón Feudal:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-disappearance-of-japans-third-gender/
Es interesante que era algo totalmente estructurado e integrado socialmente, vamos que no eran casos puntuales, y que a medida que Japón se fue occidentalizando, y con la influencia de los valores cristianos en cuanto a que solo había hombre y mujer, todo esto se borró del mapa:
This seclusion ended in 1854 when the black ships of the US Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay to negotiate treaties that would result in the opening of the country to Western trade and influences.
Perry’s black ships were the trigger for unparalleled changes in virtually all areas of Japanese society, culminating in the creation of a centralized Japanese nation-state under the Meiji emperor in 1868. In the span of a few decades, Japan saw an unequalled influx of Western ideas and people, while at the same time Japanese people were sent to Europe and the United States to bring back knowledge in the areas of science, economics, politics, the military, and medicine. With breath-taking speed, Japan transformed from a feudal state into a modern nation. Crucially, Japan did not only import Western technology, but also Christian and Victorian morals and ethics. With Western norms and values came the prevalence of a strict male-female dichotomy.
These strict gender hierarchies and age restrictions left no space for the fluidity of Wakashu, who were either ridiculed, condemned, or ignored. The more open sexual behavior codes that defined feudal Japan had no place in the new nation-state. Without their distinct hairstyles and clothes and faced with a strict moral code, Wakashu effectually ceased to exist as a “third gender.”
Es curioso como se impuso esa visión del mundo, y cómo ahora, desde esa misma visión, nos creamos que toda la historia fue siempre así.
