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A third gender : beautiful youths in Japanese Edo-period prints and paintings (1600-1868)

by Joshua S. Mostow, Asato Ikeda, Ryoko Matsuba

This volume explores the cultural fascination with wakashu, or male youths, in Edo-period Japan. It features more than one hundred woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries held at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Accession 12508 ISBN 9780888545145 Publisher Royal Ontario Museum
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