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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. ...

...page=90|isbn=0-520-20900-1}}</ref> ''Wakashū'' often also performed as ''[[onnagata]]'' ("woman-role"; female impersonators). ...

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 ...