…historicise, but in fine postmodern tradition yuri has proved stubbornly difficult to pin down. Yuri is the Japanese word for ‘lily’, and is also a Japanese girls given name; however,…

…organization, Regumi (also known as RST, Regumi Studio Tokyo), was created in March 1987. The “re” in Regumi comes from the word rezubian, a transliteration of the English word lesbian,…

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…Itō Bungaku, the editor of Japanese gay men’s magazine Barazoku, referred to female readers as yurizoku; in other words, the association that developed was barazoku, the ‘rose tribe,’ for gay…

…if they are interchangeable – the truth is that the etymology is somewhat fluid, forming a broad continuum of definition and understanding. In other words, what any term means has…