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A third gender: beautiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints and paintings (1600-1868)

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Asato Ikeda -- Wakashu as third gender and gender ambiguity through the Edo period / Joshua S. Mostow -- Fleurs du mal : onnagata (female-role specialists) and nanshoku (male-male sex) in Edo-period kabuki / Ryoko Matsuba, translated by Joshua S. Mostow -- Japanese art at the Royal Ontario Museum / Asato Ikeda -- Catalogue of plates -- Section 1 : an introduction to the Edo period -- Section 2 : an introduction to wakashu, how to spot one -- Wakashu, chiefly alone -- Younger wakashu -- Kamuro.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    Toronto: ROM Press, 2016

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  • Subject

  • Period

    1600-1867

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  • ISBN

    • 9780888545145
    • 0888545142

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016.

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