[Stockholm Exhibition] Hen on stage in Japan
![Actress in the role of geishan Izumiya Okuni. 1847-1850 Actress in the role of geishan Izumiya Okuni. 1847-1850, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861). Woodcut.](/asemus-files/geishan_Izumiya_Okuni.png)
In Japan, there is a long history of men playing women on the stage. The most famous examples is the Noh theatre and kabuki theatre. In kabuki onnagata actors known as women's roles, and they can be seen on the wooden sections of the gallery. Also in Europe in the antique theatre and until the late 16th-early 17th century dominated the men on the stage.The kabuki actor playing women make use of so-called cross-dressing. Clothing, cosmetics and body movements such as gestures are tools to play a woman on stage. This is not imitation, but about creating a new kind of beauty and power. Gender role, gender, visible just a role, a sort of playground, performance or masked.
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