Gaijin Kagema: American Cowboy Serving Gay Tokyo

By Habu

Daren Van Sant, Manhattan-bred blond, hunky protégé and boy toy top of Georgetown professor and East Asian art curator at the Smithsonian’s Free Gallery of Art, Clifton Weldon, goes to Tokyo, Japan, on a year’s sabbatical to learn more about Japanese art. The style of Japanese art he focuses on is that of the ancient art of Nanshoku—the particularized depiction, since the medieval period, of male-on-male sex acts in traditional costume and setting. Daren converts to a whole new persona in Tokyo, becoming Reno, the American cowboy gaijin kagema—the foreign male prostitute—working in an art gallery specializing in Nanshoku; living with the aging gallery owner, a foremost Nanshoku technique artist; and becoming one of the most popular male prostitutes in the kagemajaya—male brothel—world of Tokyo’s Shinjuku-chome gay district.

As Haruo, Reno’s Japanese mentor and bed partner, declines in health, the gaijin kagema must decide whether to return to Washington, D.C., as Daren or remain in Japan as Reno.

A gay love story of age difference, car sex, cowboy costumes, eroticism, a gay brothel, gay cruising, Japanese gay erotic art, gay hotel sex, gay Japanese models, gay love and loyalty, and male prostitution in gay Tokyo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BarbarianSpy
• Release date: Aug 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781925568431

Habu

Habu is one of the pen names of a former supersonic spy jet pilot, intelligence agent, male model, movie actor, and diplomat. A wild youth in South East Asia was spent enjoying whatever sexual opportunities came his way, and much of his gay male writing is about recalling incidents from those days and inventing ones he’d perhaps have liked to experience. He now leads a very quiet and ordinary life.Check out our blog and get free stories. Feedback and reviews are always appreciated.

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Gaijin Kagema

American Cowboy Serving Gay Tokyo

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Gaijin Kagema

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Gaijin Kagema

Reno let himself into the Shinjuku-sanchome, Tokyo, art gallery hallway and quietly went from room to room, running along the left of the hallway from front to back, to make sure that Haruo had closed down everything properly. Haruo’s better innings were past him. He seemed to be deteriorating more and more each day. He had suggested that Reno might want to go back to New York before his year’s sabbatical was over in the fall, but Reno had avoided discussing that. He knew, though, that Haruo was embarrassed how what his illness had affected their relations, but they weren’t discussing that either. The man was seventy; it was to be expected.

Reno, though, was only twenty-nine and in his prime. He couldn’t help but expect certain things as well. Haruo seemed particularly aware of that. It was something else they weren’t discussing.

The first, largest room, the Japanese woodblock print sales shop, was dark and looked in order. Haruo Nakisone’s art gallery specialized, for the general public, in post-World War Two woodblock print artists, such as Joichi Hoshi, Seiichiro Konishi, Haku Maki, Nakiyama, Kiyoshi Saito, Junichiro Sekino, Ryohei Tanaka, and Sadao Watanabe. These were artists whose works held—and increased—their value well. He had to turn off a light in the next, smaller sales room, which was not directly connected to the gallery in front. This is where the rarer block prints and specialized works of other visual art forms were kept, the base of the collection being from much earlier than the war period. Primary among these was the collection of Nanshoku art, the male-on-male erotic art that was concentrated in the Japanese art world from the medieval period through the nineteenth century. This was the real reason for the existence of Haruo’s shop, which was called Okama, a term for gay men. Shinjuku-sanchome was a principle gay district in Tokyo, and art collectors of Nanshoku art knew to come to the Okama Gallery for the best selection of this underground art.

The third room was the art studio. Haruo was an artist in his own right, specializing in the modern versions of the Nanshoku art, and he taught and produced this art, using male models, of which Reno was one, in the studio at the back of the shop.

All was in order here, so Reno climbed the hall stairs leading to the second and third floors. The offices and store rooms were on the second floor. The third floor was where Haruo lived—and where Reno was living as well while on sabbatical from the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where he was an assistant curator of East Asian art. Curiously, he hadn’t known