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Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868)
出版Royal Ontario Museum, 2016
主題Art / Asian / JapaneseArt / Techniques / PrintmakingArt / PrintsCrafts & Hobbies / Printmaking & Stamping
ISBN08885451429780888545145
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Mf5TjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.