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...

earlier traditions and examples of male cross-dressing in Japan, such as onnagata in kabuki theater.[citation needed] Its popularity increased around 2009...

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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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...

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...

who would vie with each other to purchase the Kabuki actors' favors. Onnagata (female-role) and wakashū-gata (adolescent boy-role) actors in particular...

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...

In Sakura doki onna gyoretsu, this onnagata is attended by three kuroko....

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...

(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...

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...

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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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...

performance and theatrical forms influenced short stories including Onnagata (女方, Onnagata). Mishima was featured as the photo model in photographer Eikoh...

: 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...

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...

'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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and the feminine characters had passed to be represented only by men (onnagata). Recent attempts to reintroduce actresses in kabuki had not been well...

under restrictive succession conventions. He was considered the greatest onnagata of the post-War period, and was heralded as a "a divine messenger given...

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...

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...

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...

(September 6, 2006). "On Japanese Tv, The Lady Is A Man Cross-dressing 'onnagata' Are Popular For Being Outspoken". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March...

his younger brother Shichinosuke II (who is also known to be a renowned onnagata actor, i.e. he is a kabuki actor who plays female roles). Kankurō is a...

arsonist. 世界恩人巡礼大写真館 (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 June 2007. Kyōzō, Takei. "The Onnagata in Kabuki: from Kamigata to Edo" (PDF). pp. 193–197. Archived from the...

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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...