Week 3 images

Here are most of the images that I showed in lecture on Tuesday.


Women's kabuki


Young boys' kabuki


adult male kabuki performer


adult male kabuki performers wearing yarô bôshi (kabuki headdress)
Onnagata, an actor who specializes in female roles


Tachiyaku, an actor who specializes in male roles


Actor evaluation book, 16th century


Advertisement with kabuki actor hawking medicine, 19th century


Image of samurai elite, 14th century


Black-ink painting


Warrior print featuring gory samurai heroics, 19th century


Illustration of impoverished samurai engaging in trade, 19th century


Medieval Buddhist priest


Dry rock garden


Erotic print featuring Buddhist monk with male prostitute, 18th century


Industrious urban commoners at work


Urban commoner connoisseur with male and female prostitutes


Illustration of Hikaru Genji, the passionate man, c. 12th century


Kôbô Daishi pictured as chigo (acolyte), c. 15th century


Illustration for Long Tale of an Autumn Night, c. 1575


Image of samurai youth, 16th century


Portrait of homoerotic icon, Mori Ranmaru, 19th century


Three stages of the samurai page: each displaying the age-appropriate hairstyle, 18th century


Warrior print depicting samurai youth, 19th century


Kabuki actor/prostitute, 18th century


Male prostitute dressed as a woman, 18th century


Figure of “beautiful youth” illustrated in samurai tale, 19th century


kabuki Lion Dance