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.

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-peri...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Royal Ontario Museum (Issuing body, Host institution)
Other Authors: Mostow, Joshua S., 1957- (Writer of added commentary, Translator)
Ikeda, Asato (Writer of added commentary)
Matsuba, Ryoko (Writer of added commentary)
Language:English
Published: [Toronto] : Royal Ontario Museum, [2016]
Subjects:
Prints, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions.
Painting, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Exhibitions.
Youth in art > Exhibitions.
Boys in art > Exhibitions.
Ukiyo-e.
Junger Mann.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Kayoko Tsuda-Guy Asian Art Collection Endowment in memory of Gordon and Nina Collison.
Physical Description:215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm
Format: Book

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