A Third Gender: Beautiful Youth in Japanese Edo-Period Prints (1600-1868)
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.
| Autor: | Mostow, Joshua S. Ikeda, Asato |
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| EAN: | 9780888545145 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Brill Brill | Hotei |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 17.10.2017 |
| Schlagworte: | Edo-Zeit Gender Studies / Gender-Forschung Japan, Geschichte; Sozial/Wirtschafts-G. |
| Größe: | 19 × 269 × 299 |
| Gewicht: | 1256 g |
