Onnagata (女形/女方, lit. 'female role'), also oyama (女形), are male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre. The modern all-male kabuki was originally...
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earlier traditions and examples of male cross-dressing in Japan, such as onnagata in kabuki theater.[citation needed] Its popularity increased around 2009...
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development, led to these assumptions remains an open question. Until 1644, when onnagata actors were required to adopt male hairstyles regardless of the gender...
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As performance Breeches role Drag Drag in Africa Khawal Köçek Onnagata Pantomime dame Principal boy Shemale (pornography) Shirabyōshi Theatrical travesti...
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the first female acting "stars", most notably Sarah Bernhardt. In Japan, onnagata, or men taking on female roles, were used in kabuki theatre when women...
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Saotome Taichi), is a Japanese actor and singer. He played young men and onnagata roles of women. His father is the head of the theatre troupe Gekidan Sujaku...
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the ban on women and young boys. Cross-dressing male actors, known as "onnagata" (lit., "woman role") or "oyama" took over previously female- or wakashu-acted...
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who would vie with each other to purchase the Kabuki actors' favors. Onnagata (female-role) and wakashū-gata (adolescent boy-role) actors in particular...
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skillfulness as an onnagata (female impersonator) labeled him as one of Heisei era's genius onnagata (平成の天才女形, Heisei no tensai onnagata). In 2003, he had...
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In Sakura doki onna gyoretsu, this onnagata is attended by three kuroko....
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(born 25 April 1950) is a Kabuki actor and the most popular and celebrated onnagata (an actor specializing in female roles) currently on stage. He has also...
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actor, and the most celebrated onnagata (specialist in female roles) of his time. His thoughts on acting, and on onnagata acting in particular, were recorded...
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yarō (young men), wakashū (adolescent boys, about 10–18 years old) or as onnagata (female impersonators).: 90–92 This term also appears in modern Japanese...
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As performance Breeches role Drag Drag in Africa Khawal Köçek Onnagata Pantomime dame Principal boy Shemale (pornography) Shirabyōshi Theatrical travesti...
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onnagata roles (even though he is 90 years old), such as Akoya from Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (which is considered one of the most difficult onnagata roles...
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performance and theatrical forms influenced short stories including Onnagata (女方, Onnagata). Mishima was featured as the photo model in photographer Eikoh...
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of Thaddeus in the 1971 film adaptation of Death in Venice, and kabuki onnagata Bandō Tamasaburō. Though bishōnen are not exclusive to yaoi, the androgyny...
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: 463-486 : 115-124 in which Enma, the King of Hell, falls in love with an onnagata. In Gennai's description of hell, it is a lively place, but is currently...
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As performance Breeches role Drag Drag in Africa Khawal Köçek Onnagata Pantomime dame Principal boy Shemale (pornography) Shirabyōshi Theatrical travesti...
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'female' clothes. Mana himself has said that he wanted to be the ultimate onnagata. English-language Japanese music website JaME said he started discovering...
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under restrictive succession conventions. He was considered the greatest onnagata of the post-War period, and was heralded as a "a divine messenger given...
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from Dostoevsky's The Idiot, in which Bando Tamasaburo, a famed kabuki onnagata (female impersonator), played the roles of both the prince and his fiancée...
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and the feminine characters had passed to be represented only by men (onnagata). Recent attempts to reintroduce actresses in kabuki had not been well...
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August 1920—22 February 2012) was a Japanese kabuki actor most known for onnagata performance. Born in Tokyo, Japan on August 20, 1920, he was the son of...
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1928 – October 10, 2011) was a Japanese kabuki performer noted for his onnagata roles. His real name Nakamura Eijirô, in 1967 Nakamura became the seventh...
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Kinugasa was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture. He began his career as an onnagata (actor specializing in female roles) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese...
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(September 6, 2006). "On Japanese Tv, The Lady Is A Man Cross-dressing 'onnagata' Are Popular For Being Outspoken". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March...
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male musicians cross-dressing in a manner similar to traditional Japanese onnagata performers. This rose to prominence through the success of Malice Mizer...
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bunraku dance scenes. However, proper shosagoto dances, performed by onnagata (lit. "female role") actors, entered the kabuki repertoire in the Genroku...
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banned from the stage in 1652, and these roles were taken over by adult onnagata actors or wakashū-gata actors specializing in adolescent male roles. In...
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