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
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- 7089922
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- Book
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- Toronto, ON : Royal Ontario Museum Press, [2016]
- 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780888545145 (paperback)
- 0888545142 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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.
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- Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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