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- In the Edo period (1600-1868), kabuki actors (known as [[onnagata]] when playing female roles) often worked as prostitutes off-stage. [[Kagem *Maki Morinaga, "The Gender of Onnagata as the Imitating Imitated," positions 10:2 (2002), 245-284. ...7 KB (1,014 words) - 08:59, 18 August 2021
- ...page=90|isbn=0-520-20900-1}}</ref> ''Wakashū'' often also performed as ''[[onnagata]]'' ("woman-role"; female impersonators). ...4 KB (589 words) - 10:35, 18 August 2021
- During the Edo period (1600-1868) the ''onnagata'', as were called the boy or young male actors who interpreted adult female Both the ''KAGEMA'' and the ''onnagata'' were prized by refined followers of ''nanshoku.'' A male prostitute ...29 KB (4,342 words) - 08:59, 18 August 2021