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

A third gender: beautiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints and paintings (1600-1868)
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ISBN 0888545142 (pbk.)
9780888545145 (pbk.)
Author Mostow, Joshua S. 1957-
Title A third gender : beautiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints and paintings (1600-1868) / Joshua S. Mostow and Asato Ikeda, with the assistance of Ryoko Matsuba
Publisher [Toronto] : Royal Ontario Museum, 2016
Physical desc. 215 p. ; col. ill ; 30 cm.
Note Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211) and index.
Contents Introduction / Asato Ikeda -- Wakashu as a 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 -- Section 3: females and wakashu -- Young women and wakashu -- Wakashu and older women -- Section 4: men and wakashu -- Section 5: onnagata -- Section 6: cross-dressing women.
Corporate name Royal Ontario Museum -- Exhibitions
Subject Prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Painting, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Youth in art -- Exhibitions
Added name(s) Ikeda, Asato
Matsuba, Ryoko
Added name(s) - Corporate Royal Ontario Museum
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