Gender Variance and Sexualities in Ukiyo-e [浮世絵] - Crossdressing [女方] Kabuki [歌舞伎] Actors and other related artifacts

Yamashita Kinsaku II

The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II in the Costume of a Fashionable Young Man (Wakashu)

The Third Azuma Tozo as a Woman in a Black Kimono

The First Nakamura Tomijuro as an Oiran Standing in a Room

The Actors IV Iwai Hanshiro and I Bando Mitsugoro as Women Pilgrime in a shosa (Acting and Dancing) Performance

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman Standing near a Winding Stream

The Actors Otani Tomoemon I as Emohei (right), and Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as Sanada Yoichi (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Act Two: The House of Kakogawa Honzo from the play Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers)

Kabuki Actor

Mitate junishi no uchi

Kabuki Actors Nakamura Gentaro and Ikushima Shingoro

Oiwa holding arrows

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Woman’s Role

Evening Glow on a Traveling Drama [Chinese watching a Kabuki play]

Hofdame Onoe zittend voor kamerscherm

Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki

Actors as Genroku, Otsuma, and Shokuro, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

Man en vrouw in gevecht

“Act II, Scene 5: At the Opera in Paris,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki

Vrouw met demonenmasker tussen de wolken

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke II and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Seijuro (right) and Onatsu (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Hiyoku no Kiku-cho" (An Elopemet: Chrysanthemum-and-Butterfly Lovebirds), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781

The First Nakamura Tomijuro as a Woman Dancer

The Actor Sanagawa Ichimatsu 1st as a Wakashu (Fashionable Youth) in the Drama "Momo–Chidori Shiraume"

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Female Role (Shizuka Gozen)

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman Standing in a Room Having a Wave-pattern Dado

The Fourth Iwai Hanshiro as a Courtesan Dressed in a Pink Kimono

The Actor Nakayama Tomisaburo I in an Unidentified Role

The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox from Mt. Ubagadake in the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as a Thunder Goddess in the Play Onna Narukami, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1770

Twee kabuki acteurs

Ohatsu bespiedt ruzie tussen hofdames

Mirror Images of Kabuki Actors

Sawamura Tanosuke

5 Playing Cards with Kabuki Rolls, Poems, Trigrams

Kabuki Actors Arashi Ryūzō II and Segawa Kikunojō III

The Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry as Kabuki Actors

Waitress Oritsu hiding a letter behind her back

Acteur als vrouw trekkend aan rode doek

Segawa Kikunojō III as Teruha

Actor Nakamura Senya as Tokonatsu in the Kabuki Play, "The Legacy of the Three-Comma Family Crest Revealed" (Mitsutomoe Katoku Binaki)

Kabuki Actors Onoe Kikugorō III as Shizuka Gozen and Nakamura Utaemon III as Kitsune Tadanobu, in the play Yoshitsune senbon zakura (The Thousand Cherry Trees of Yoshitsune)

Iwai Hanshirō IV

The Actors Nakamura Kashiwagi as a Wakashu (second from right), and Three Unidentified Actors as Yakko

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman in a Crouching Position

The Second Yamashita Kinsaku (1733–1790)

The Fourth Iwai Hanshirō as a Woman

Actors [Out of Costume] Like Mount Fuji [Without Snow] in Summer, by Ichiba Tsūshō

The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Miyagino Disguised as a Hairdresser in the Play Kosode-gura no Tekubari, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Second Month, 1772 (?)

The Actor Segawa Kitsuji III as Murasame in the Play Gohiiki Kanjincho, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1773

The Kabuki Role: Wife Omaki

Concubine Mekame in snow with umbrella

Three Kabuki Actors Playing Hanetsuki

Lezende geliefden

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Female Role

Kabuki Actor in a Female Role Standing with a Fan

Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugorō III as the Spirit of the Courtesan Yonakishii

The Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojo in the Role of a Courtesan Reading a Letter

Two Dancers Performing a “Shakkyōmono” Kabuki Dance, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 3

Sanjo Kantaro as a Young Woman Standing in a Wisteria Arbor

Kabuki Actors Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Sanogawa Ichimatsu III in "A Courtesan’s Mirror for the Eastern Provinces" (Keisei Azuma kagami)

Sanjo Kantaro II in the Role of Urashima Taro

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Tomijūrō I in a Female Dance Role

In the Style of a Young Man (Wakashu fu), Left Sheet of Triptych (Sanpukutsui hidari)

The Actor Nakamura Rikō, as a Courtesan with a Sword

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as an Oiran

The Actor Segawa Kikunojō as a Courtesan of the Ōmiya Brothel

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I in an Unidentified Role

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Hata no Daizen Taketora Disguised as the Yakko Matahei (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Umegae Disguised as the Poem-Diviner Omatsu (left), in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781

The Actor Arashi Hinaji I Dancing "Musume Dojo-ji" (The Maiden at Dojo Temple)

Drie kabuki acteurs trekkend aan een rode banier

The Ninth-Month Kabuki Dance "Kikujido"

Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II Dancing with a Parasol

Kabuki Actors Osagawa Tsuneyo II and Ichikawa Danjūrō V

Kabuki Stars Before a Gracious Waterfall (Arigataki megumi no hanagata)

Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Yaozō III, Onoe Matsusuke I, and Sawamura Sōjūrō III

Amusements of Kabuki Actors of the “Third Floor” [Dressing Room] (Yakusha sangaikyō), by Shikitei Sanba

Two kabuki actors in the roles of a courtesan on a water buffalo and a traveling priest

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

Actors as Fujisawa Shiro, Asari Yoichi, and Hangaku, from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

Onoe Kikugorō V as Otowake Neko no ke (Right), Bandō Mitsugorō IV as Aishō Michinoku (Center), Onoe Kikugorō V as Isogai Mibunosuke (Left) in the Kabuki play Tōkai Kidan Nekomata Yashiki

The Actor Arashi Wakano as a wakashu (youth) in a kappa (raincoat)

The Actor Nakamura Riko as an Oiran Tying Her Obi

Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman Standing under a Maple Tree in the Autumn

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as a Woman in a Black Kimono

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo Third as an Oiran

The Actor Segawa Yujiro I in an Unidentified Role

The Actors Nakamura Shichisaburo III (right), and Ichikawa Junzo I (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro as a Man in Sumptuous Raiment, Standing in a Field, Mount Fuji in the Background

Silhouette Image of Kabuki Actor

Kabuki Actors: Bando Mitsugorō and Iwai Hanshirō

Segawa Senjo in the role of nurse Masaoka

Fourteen Actors

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Mad Female Role

Hofdame Iwafuji met sandaal in haar hand

The Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō II as a Woman Reading a Letter

The Advent of a Demon; Scene from a Performance in an old Kabuki Theatre

Kabuki Scene at Kumagai's Camp, from the play The Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani (Ichinotani futaba gunki)

“Act II, Scene 2: Along Train Tracks in America,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki

Iwai Hanshirō IV as a Woman with a Sword

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro IV and Segawa Kikunojo III as the Lovers Choemon (right) and Ohan (left), in the Elopement Scene "Michiyuki Segawa no Adanami" (An Elopement: Treacherous Waves in the Shallow River), a Dance Interlude from Part Two of the Play Kabuki no Hana Bandai Soga (Flower of Kabuki: The Eternal Soga), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twenty-fifth Day of the Fourth Month, 1781