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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)

Mostow, Joshua S.
Ikeda, Asato

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ISBN10: 0888545142
ISBN13: 9780888545145
Publisher: Hotei Pub
Published: May 3 2016
Weight: 2.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.60 Depth: 11.60
Language: English
Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youths, 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.

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