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.

• 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.

• Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youth, were desired by men and women, constituting a third gender; with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. For the first time outside Japan, A Third Gender examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the conventionally held model of gender binarism.The volume will reproduce, in colour, over a hundred works, mostly woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced by a number of designers ranging from such well-known artists as Okumura Masanobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and Utagawa Kunisada, to lesser known artists such as Shigemasa, Eishi and Eiri. A Third Gender is based on the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, which houses the largest collection of Japanese art in Canada, including more than 2,500 woodblock prints. 

Ämnesord

Målningar  (sao)

Grafisk konst  (sao)

Könsroller i konsten  (sao)

Pojkar i konsten  (sao)

Prints, Japanese  -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Painting, Japanese  -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Youth in art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Boys in art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Sex role in art  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Ukiyo-e  (gnd)

Japansk konst  -- historia -- 1600-1868 (sao)

Graphic arts  (LCSH)

Painting  (LCSH)

Boys in art  (LCSH)

Sex role in art  (LCSH)

1600-1868 (Edoperioden, Japan)  (sao)

Genre

Illustrerade verk  (sao)

Utställningskataloger  (saogf)

Exhibition catalogs.  (aat)

Exhibition catalogs.  (lcgft)

Illustrated works.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

NE1326.5.Y68 (LCC)

769.952 (DDC)

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