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...

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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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...

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...

bunraku dance scenes. However, proper shosagoto dances, performed by onnagata (lit. "female role") actors, entered the kabuki repertoire in the Genroku...

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...

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....

(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...

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...

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

of Thaddeus in the 1971 film adaptation of Death in Venice, and kabuki onnagata Bandō Tamasaburō. Though bishōnen are not exclusive to BL, the androgyny...

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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...

time but focuses on more naturalistic drama. It is also contrasted with onnagata or "female-like style". The Bandō Mitsugorō line Bandō Mitsugorō VIII Bandō...

(Tachiyaku) and female roles (Onnagata) and his grandfather, Onoe Baikō VII (七代目 尾上梅幸) was known for being one of the greatest onnagata actors of the 20th century...

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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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...

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...

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...

single type of role, Shichinosuke plays both male (tachiyaku) and female (onnagata) parts. Nakamura, often represented as "Shichinosuke Nakamura" in reference...

Egyptian equivalent Ghilman LGBT topics and Islam LGBT in the Ottoman Empire Onnagata Besiroglu, Sehvar. "Music, Identity, Gender: Çengi̇s, Köçeks, Çöçeks"....

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