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 Hiroyuki Itsuki is
Japan's
most popular writer as well as a revered Buddhist thinker who is
able to write frankly and with dignity on difficult subjects such as
depression and sexuality. Upon reading James N. Powell's writings on
Polynesian lovemaking, he was inspired to pen two volumes in Japanese
introducing Powell's thoughts to his wide reading audience. Thus began
the "Polynesian sex" (ポリネシアンセックス) revolution in Japan.
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Beautifully written
and produced,
the novella Silent Love is
the story of a Japanese couple suffering from marital problems,
especially in the area of romance. They take a flight to the South
Pacific, where they meet an anthropologist researching sexual customs
in Oceania. During their conversation the anthtropologist instructs
them in the ways of Polynesian sex. There is a happy
ending.
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Twelve
Chapters on
Love is a
philosophical
work in which Itsuki laments the spiritual crisis at the basis of
Japanese sexual culture, with its emphasis
on pornography, and offers what he views as a needed corrective in the
form of the teachings on Polynesian sex.
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