{"id":406,"date":"2008-10-07T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-10-07T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T18:30:43","slug":"st-sebastian-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/10\/st-sebastian-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"St Sebastian Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Danwei, a blog you must follow to keep up with China, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/magazines\/donnie_yen_esquire_violence.php\">Donnie Yen Meditates on Violence<\/a>&#8221; shows the Hong Kong movie star posed as the martyred Saint, looking like a pin cushion. This is an homage to the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/gallery\/enlargePhoto?id=3385833&amp;story=3385376\">Esquire cover<\/a> showing Mohamed Ali in the same pose.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Yukio Mishima earlier made a link. In his 1948 novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confessions_of_a_Mask\">Confessions of a Mask<\/a>, the presumably autobiographical character views a painting of St. Sebastian as an inspiration. Mishima struck this pose in a publicity photo for his film<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mishima2ss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-408 aligncenter\" title=\"mishima2ss\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mishima2ss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Sebastian has a <a href=\"http:\/\/bode.diee.unica.it\/~giua\/SEBASTIAN\/\">vast iconography<\/a>, but this painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guido_Reni\">Guido Reni<\/a> was Mishima&#8217;s model:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mishima-st-sebastian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-409\" title=\"mishima-st-sebastian\" src=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mishima-st-sebastian-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galleria di Palazzo Rosso (Genova, Italy).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>St. Sebastian has become a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Sebastian#Saint_Sebastian_as_a_LGBT_icon\">gay icon<\/a>, but I&#8217;m not sure that either Mohamed Ali or Donnie Yen mean to get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Danwei, a blog you must follow to keep up with China, &#8220;Donnie Yen Meditates on Violence&#8221; shows the Hong Kong movie star posed as the martyred Saint, looking like a pin cushion. This is an homage to the classic Esquire cover showing Mohamed Ali in the same pose. But of course, Yukio Mishima earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[175,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-6y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}