[Cross dressing] [Japan] [Kabuki] Cross-dressing scenes and portraits of Onnagata actors photo archive, Japan, ca. 1910s–1920s, documents the visual culture of Japanese theater at a pivotal moment when modern photographic media intersected with longstanding traditions of gendered performance. Produced during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods, these images preserve Kabuki’s.....

[Meiji Japan][Samurai][Kabuki Theatre] Samurai identity in the late 19th century photo archive, documenting kabuki depictions of warrior masculinity in Japan during the early Meiji period, made after the abolition of the samurai class when images of warriors continued to shape popular understandings of military tradition and masculinity in Japan. These.....