Kaze to Ki no Uta ('The Poem of Wind and Trees') is a Japanese manga
series written and illustrated by Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in
two shōjo manga (girls' manga) magazines: Shūkan Shōjo Comic from
1976 to 1980, and Petit Flower from 1981 to 1984. One of the earliest
works in the shōnen-ai (male–male romance) genre, Kaze to Ki no Uta
follows the tragic romance between two students at an all-boys boarding
school in France during the late 19th century. The series was developed
and published amid a significant transitional period for shōjo manga,
as the medium shifted from an audience composed primarily of children to
an audience of adolescents and young adults. It attracted controversy
for its mature themes of sadomasochism, incest, and rape, but
nevertheless achieved significant critical and commercial success,
winning the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōjo category. Kaze to
Ki no Uta is regarded as a pioneering work of shōnen-ai, and is
credited by critics with widely popularizing the genre.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaze_to_Ki_no_Uta>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
The Southern Cross Expedition (dogsled team pictured), the
first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration,
departed London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Expedition>
1989:
Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined
hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across
the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics to demonstrate
their desire for independence.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way>
2010:
A former Philippine National Police officer hijacked a tourist
bus in Manila, holding its occupants hostage for nearly eleven hours and
killing eight of them before being killed by police himself.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_hostage_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bewildering:
1. Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large
choice being available.
2. gerund of bewilder: bewilderment. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bewildering>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The right method in any particular case must be largely
determined by the nature of the problem.
--Arnold Toynbee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee>