{"product_id":"a-third-gender-beautiful-youths-in-japanese-edo-period-prints-and-paintings-1600-1868-9780888545145","title":"A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600-1868)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joshua S. Mostow | Asato Ikeda\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill Hotei\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill Hotei\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Techniques - Printmaking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). \u003ci\u003eWakashu\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eA Third Gender\u003c\/i\u003e examines the fascination with \u003ci\u003ewakashu\u003c\/i\u003e in Edo-period culture and their visual representation in art, demonstrating how they destabilize the conventionally held model of gender binarism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eA Third Gender\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46311607664791,"sku":"9780888545145","price":5160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780888545145.webp?v=1767702868","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-third-gender-beautiful-youths-in-japanese-edo-period-prints-and-paintings-1600-1868-9780888545145","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}