Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011

Grandpas Struggle With Sada Abe

Mitsubishi was one of the biggest producers of heavy machinery during the 30s and 40s in Japan and even before. Early the emperor Hirohito or his navy minister respectively decided to take use of the company, later even forced it to move their whole production to Hiroshima, where most of the war vessels and engines were constructed from this time on – so no wonder Hiroshima was going to be one of the preferred targets of the American aircrafts at the end of the 2nd World War. Already a long time before Mitsubishi focused on shipping in general. The Meiji period brought wealth and helped the company to rise. The opening towards the West in this time was essential for the development of the firm. Mitsubishi means the three chestnuts by the way: symbolized in the company’s banner.

Grandpa joined the chestnuts early in his life. Being 17 years old he practically sold his life to the firm, worked for them all day long and eventually became a pervert, as it had to happen. The whole work attitude, sacrificing oneself to the company’s needs and to the imperial ideology strongly reflected on his sexuality. When he went to university in Osaka to learn the secrets of engineering for Mitsubishi in the early 30s, he also got introduced to the secrets of pervert sex – in short: he met this girl who was going to become very famous as Sada Abe. Back then she already began to work as a prostitute in the Tobita district of town. My grandpa, not knowing that, started dating her – met her somewhere in a nice café close to that old five-story high fortress, which they had just rebuild some years ago and almost fell in love. She told him how eagerly she tried to become one of the high class geishas. That she ended up at the lowest social status being a prostitute she elegantly concealed. However, he could sense her evil, perverted mind and actually therefore felt attracted to her.

The few times they slept with each other were full of tension and passion. She never could stop herself from slapping and spanking him while having sex and to his surprise: he really felt aroused by that. To his own luck he didn’t get to deep into that. Whether he would have liked asphyxiation as well or not, I don’t know. It seemed to have been more a desire to receive the softer sort of pain. After a couple of intermezzos Sada Abe already moved to Tokyo with her other lover Ishida. It must have been a crazy time, this year of 1936. They spent nights and nights in the most glamorous districts of the city – probably places comparable to nowadays Shibuya and Roppongi. Grandpa even tried to follow her, but already back then Tokyo could have been described as a huge megalopolis. No chance to track her down in this jungle of concrete and steel. He walked all the new subway lines up and down, almost ran into a coup d’etat a group of people iniciated just around this time, but eventually tried to find distraction in Yoyogi Park. Here where today the cosplay youth enjoys themselves every Sunday, he didn’t know that just in this moment, walking, sitting, wasting time, he came so close to her. Only a few kilometers further she rented a room with her lover and singing geishas.

Just a couple of weeks later Sada Abe’s name made big news. Everybody started talking about her. She even became the name of the summer. Grandpa, still wandering through Tokyo, certainly didn’t know what to think when he opened the newspaper. The image the news gave was dark and sinister: sexually perverted prostitute brutally strangles her lover in sex game, cuts of his genitalia and flees. "I felt attached to Ishida's penis”, Sada Abe’s been cited later, “and thought that only after taking leave from it quietly could I then die. I unwrapped the paper holding them and gazed at his penis and scrotum. I put his penis in my mouth and even tried to insert it inside me... Then, I decided that I would flee to Osaka, staying with Ishida's penis all the while. In the end, I would jump from a cliff on Mount Ikoma while holding on to his penis." Grandpa never saw this girl again, but for a strange reason started to dream about erotic asphyxiation for many years. Back in Osaka his life went the normal, ordinary way, while up in Tokyo Sada Abe got jailed for about six years. Anyways, in these early years of his life he obviously met a Japanese legend. An icon of evil desire and passionate crime. Even an upcoming star in plenty of novels and films. A symbol of darkness, a whole nation was fascinated about. When the days of war got crueler and crueler he kept on forgetting about her. From Osaka he soon went down to the Hiroshima prefecture to work down in the shipyards as engineer and bound his life to the fate of Japan, even wishing to have been strangled by Sada Abe with every bomb that fell on his beloved country.


Sada Abe

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