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Suehiro Maruo About Women's History

The other day, Emilio García Montiel told me that a reader of this blog, a friend of him, had shown interest in me to comment something about the creator Japanese manga Suehiro Maruo 丸 尾 末 广. While I really do not know enough about the world of Japanese comics, and in particular the work of Maruo, one of the interests of this blog is just present Several aspects about the Japanese visual production with sexual content. Then, I remembered a book (1) , dusty and, on the work of Maruo, which give me a few years ago Masaki-san clarifications would be that it was not "art" ... Serve as the pretext to present here Maruo, if not a real review, at least some interesting images to stimulate debate.
The theme for excellence in the work of Japanese illustrator, recently become a cult author by admirers and fans of manga , is the dark side of human beings, spaces of dreams. In that sense, their main sources, in terms of visual and narrative are horror movies (especially Japanese) in the fifties and sixties, and most of all, the current Japanese aesthetics of early twentieth century known as ero-guro-nansensu (2) .

(The picture on the left is the film Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan , 1959, directed by Nobuo Nakagawa)

This trend emerged in Japan during the 1920 and 1930, mostly from 大 正 the Taisho period (1912-1926). The term, which comes from the words erotic-grotesque-nonsense (erotic-grotesque nonsense), came to be termed a fertile literary production revolving around the stories of mystery and detective who immediately caught the attention of young citizens, and stories abound in which the horror, the macabre, madness, mystery and eroticism were the most common ingredients, and its most significant exponent of the writer Edogawa RANPA 江 戸 川 乱 歩 (1894-1965) (3) .

In fact, a considerable volume of images in the comic Maruo reconstruct a visual type located in those years, fueled further by the Deco and gore.


NOTES 1. The book is called Shin-seiki Gahoe SM SM 画报 新 世纪, and was published by Asahi Sonorama in 2000.
2. The best study so far has appeared in English on the subject of ero-guro-nansensu is the text of Miriam Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The mass culture of Japanese modern times. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009.
3. Literary name 平井 太郎 Taro Hirai created from the admiration he had for the work of Edgar Allan Poe, hence po Edoga Waran.