ABSTRACT
Concerning Kichi Ishida fantasy, Lacan is tellingly silent; after all, it is not difficult to see Kichi’s giving into a growing passivity obedient to the quasi-pedagogical erotic initiation he received. After all both, Kichi as much as the bull in the ring, go through a ritual against nature to confront their death. After strangling Kichi with her peach obi and cutting off his penis and scrotum, Abe wrote using his blood on the sheets and on his leg: Sada, Kichi together, and before leaving she engraved her name with a knife in Kichi’s left arm. On 8th May 1936, Abe and Kichi, already lovers, separated due to the lack of money and commitments on Kichi’s side, which prevented them from continuing to meet in Tea houses. In 1886, Japan coming out of a self-imposed isolation and modernising itself, reaches industrial and military capacities comparable to the western countries.
