Gender Variance and Sexualities in Ukiyo-e [浮世絵] - Crossdressing Kabuki [歌舞伎] Actors in Nature [自然]

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

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

Kabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych)

Concubine Mekame in snow with umbrella

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

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

Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Female Role

The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman in a Crouching Position

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

Kabuki Actors Arashi Ryūzō II and Segawa Kikunojō III

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

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

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

The Actor Segawa Yujiro I in an Unidentified Role

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

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