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Onnagata (女形/女方, lit. 'female role'), also
oyama (女形), are male
actors who play
female roles in
kabuki theatre. The
modern all-male
kabuki was originally...
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earlier traditions and
examples of male cross-dressing in ****an, such as
onnagata in
kabuki theater.[citation needed] Its po****rity
increased around 2009...
- the ban on
women and
young boys. Cross-dressing male actors,
known as "
onnagata" (lit., "woman role") or "oyama" took over
previously female- or wakashu-acted...
- who
would vie with each
other to
purchase the
Kabuki actors' favors.
Onnagata (female-role) and wakashū-gata (adolescent boy-role)
actors in particular...
- development, led to
these ****umptions
remains an open question.
Until 1644, when
onnagata actors were
required to
adopt male
hairstyles regardless of the gender...
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bunraku dance scenes. However,
proper shosagoto dances,
performed by
onnagata (lit. "female role") actors,
entered the
kabuki repertoire in the Genroku...
- As
performance Breeches role Drag Drag in
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Onnagata Pantomime dame Prin****l boy **** (****) Shirabyōshi
Theatrical travesti...
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Saotome Taichi), is a ****anese
actor and singer. He pla****
young men and
onnagata roles of women. His
father is the head of the
theatre troupe Gekidan Sujaku...
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skillfulness as an
onnagata (female impersonator)
labeled him as one of
Heisei era's
genius onnagata (平成の天才女形,
Heisei no
tensai onnagata). In 2003, he had...
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without a
screenplay written with
cinema in mind.
Women were even pla**** by
onnagata.
Filmmakers were
charged with
shooting films with long
takes and leaving...
