ISBN9780888545145 (paperback)
0888545142 (paperback)
著者・編者Joshua S. Mostow and Asato Ikeda, with the assistance of Ryoko Matsuba.
形態の詳細illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
一般注記Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum from May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016.
資料の内容に関する注記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.
書誌注記Includes bibliographical references and index.