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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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Accession Number: 12508
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View in Vernon Browser| vernon_accession | 12508 |
| vernon_id | 19644 |
| vernon_slug | 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 |
| vernon_authors | Joshua S. Mostow, Asato Ikeda, Ryoko Matsuba |
| vernon_tags | Art, Arts, Painting, Graphic arts, Social groups, Prints, Youth, Age groups |
| vernon_production_date | 2016 |
| vernon_brief_description | 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. |
| vernon_object_type | Books/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication, Exhibition catalogues/Catalogues/Document genres/Information forms/Visual and Verbal Communication |
| vernon_locations | Stored |
| vernon_ob_status | Accessioned |
| vernon_isbn_issn | 9780888545145 |
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| vernon_last_sync_timestamp | 2026-02-19 11:41 |
| vernon_cover_image_id | 20817 |