A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868)

Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youths, were desired by men and women,...
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SKU: 9780888545145
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Author: Joshua S. Mostow
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868) by Mostow, Joshua S.

A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868)

¥12,319

A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868)

¥12,319
Author: Joshua S. Mostow
Format: Paperback
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.


Author: Joshua S. Mostow, Asato Ikeda
Publisher: Brill Hotei
Published: 05/03/2016
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 11.60h x 9.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780888545145


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2017

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