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A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868) by Joshua S. Mostow, Asato Ikeda

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

Joshua S. Mostow, Asato Ikeda

215 pages 2016

2 editions

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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 ...

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