I, Japanophile

Amae Psychology

ijapanophile — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:52:16 +0000

Amae psychology in a horribly reduced way is the need for mummy or the need to mother but that’s just a quick interpretation of it with no explantion. What I am in no way saying is that it’s one of these fetishes where a guy might dress in nappies, no. The maternal aspect of it is sublimated, it comes out in less obvious way not unlike the libido… and there can be an openly erotic aspect to it but there needn’t be. It could all be sublimated and it can affect all manner of affairs… including business matters.

Wabi-Sabi

ijapanophile — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:07:27 +0000

Wabi-sabi in my estimation is basically the beauty of things imperfect. You know sometimes in life it doesn’t really matter who’s right or wrong. Sometimes it’s worth just apreciating something for what it is… even if it appears to be failing in all commonly accepted ways. While not being a humanism wabi-sabi is a very human aesthetic… since who of all of us is perfect?

Adult Girls

ijapanophile — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:51:54 +0000

Adult girls in I, Japanophile logic differ from underage girls in that they are of age and “free” of parental authority and such. Also there isn’t the same stigma attached to adult-adult relationships as there is to adult-underage relationships. In fact the stigma for adults could maybe even be not to be in an adult relationship since I suppose that would once again throw a person’s sexuality into question (leading to suspicions of this or that).

When you’re an adult your workshop days are over. You’re considered on the market whether you suppose yourself to be or not and you wouldn’t be far wrong if you thought adults were treated somewhat like cattle.

There is an adult in the Japanese idol musical world called Yuko Ogura who affects a very childlike way in her music but I’m no fan. You see I have no emotions vested in her. I believe for me to like her I would have to have seen her grow up in some way. Only by appreciating her pre-idol persona could I put up with her actual idol persona.

I don’t want an adult girl to act as if I might really believe that she is like a child because that is never going to happen, I’m not going to ever believe that. The reason I can appreciate Tsugunaga Momoko’s act is because it has been made clear over time that her persona is like a work of art. I as a fan for some time have had the great privilege to see her as she was growing up. Yuko Ogura on the other hand is just too much in my face for someone I don’t know.

I guess the conclusion I, Japanophile is reaching here is that the ideal relationship is one where at least one of the people is seen to have in some way grown.

Tsugunaga Momoko

ijapanophile — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:14:14 +0000

Tsugunaga Momoko is a key member and product of the Berryz Workshop. She has been fashioned as a musical idol and in my eyes she is ready. At the tender age of 16 she has already perfected the act of an adult acting like a child. This may have the effect of looking like a child acting like an adult but I still prefer the idea of the twofold convolution. My reason being is that a key to the success of a number of adult musical idols in Japan is their acting like children. They affect child like ways to garner our support. Momoko has this act down already. When she is fully grown she will be able to exercise it with prodigious skill.

Berryz Workshop

ijapanophile — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:47:24 +0000

Berryz Workshop is how “Berryz Kobo” translates from Japanese and it is the name of a young girl musical group in Japan. The members are all school aged and their musical numbers are provided to them by producers working for the Hello! Project musical label.

Following I, Japanophile logic, what we have here is a bunch of kids who were inducted while still underage and were then subsequently fashioned as idol style objects for our worshiper style gratification. In other words: The production and promotion of this group was a comercial venture in (music and) the objectification of young girls.

The Berryz Workshop is by far and away a better place to be than the lower ranks of U-15. While the Berryz Workshop also partakes in the U-15 genre, it is from a halcyon height. What the Workshop brings to the marketplace in terms of photography and “Photobooks” serves as much more of an exultation of the girls than do the products produced at the lower end of the scale by other less repuatable companies for other less fortunate girls.

Could Berryz Kobo work just as well as a dance troupe? No.
As far as I’m concerned it’s the music that pushes them way up into the atmosphere. Beyond a commercial enterprise they are also an artistic endeavour and they are not without artistic merit! One can be enthralled without flitting back and forth in one’s mind to comparisons with strip joints and that other kind of dancing girl, the stripper.

Underage Girls

ijapanophile — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:42:56 +0000

Underage girls are under the age of consent for sex (and some other things). In a sense they are still “owned” by their parent(s) or legal guardian(s). Legally they are not allowed to do it and we’re not allowed to do them or even to be getting there with them. It’s all strictly prohibited and there is a great stigma attached to any such relationship or even to any hint of one.

One such hint might be the act of objectifying such a girl.
If you indicate to another person that such a girl has a nice butt then that could be taken as a hint that you might like to tap that. Even if the other person doesn’t judge you, you are still in the world of stigma in a broader cultural sense.

Perhaps we could class such a hint as an indiscretion but there other types of hints that might be more plain in their implications. For example: Showing another person photos of underage girls who while not being abused or legally misused are still pictured with the purpose of arousing admiration for their beauty. A person then could be forgiven for wondering if that’s your “type”, if you prefer underaged girls to adult girls.

This isn’t my last word on the matter. There are other things about this topic that I want to deal with seperately but for now I just want to broach one last matter. There is a downward sliding scale of nasty in the photography of underage girls that beyond a certain point, I feel is harmful for all involved. Without breaking the law one can still feel wretched for looking at certain photos. There is a genre of photography in Japan called U-15 where some of the works are so low on artistic merit and so high in their lasciviousness that one can taste already what it might be like if they were to take the next step into the downright illegal.

Girls Objectified

ijapanophile — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:18:05 +0000

Any girl is a person I accept that but I habitually objectify them.
I see tits and I see ass and I wish to see more. In passing I may not even have the chance to see the person whole but I still see what I see and get my cheap thrill.

(Girls thrill me and) Japanese girls are a particular delight.
If I had one I feel I wouldn’t need any other.

Under this topic I see two strands:

Adult girls
Underage girls

1 is pretty straight forward and I may look to deal with it later but
2 is more complex and is what I will begin to deal with next.

Introduction

ijapanophile — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:40:29 +0000

I, Japanophile.
I, just about able to express this.
I, want to expound.

As a Japanophile I am someone taken with Japanophilia.
For me, in my case, that means I am taken with
Japanese aesthetics, psychology and (to be blunt) girls.

In my writing here I see the main vein being about the girls
but that is not to say my interest in Japanese psychology and aesthetics is fake, it’s not. However it is the topic of girls that is demanding of me to be addressed first.