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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. It originated in 1629 after women were...
- earlier traditions and examples of male cross-dressing in ****an, such as onnagata in kabuki theater.[citation needed] Its po****rity increased around 2009...
- development, led to these ****umptions remains an open question. Until 1644, when onnagata actors were required to adopt male hairstyles regardless of the gender...
- 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...
- bunraku dance scenes. However, proper shosagoto dances, performed by onnagata (lit. "female role") actors, entered the kabuki repertoire in the Genroku...
- 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...
- the first female acting "stars", most notably Sarah Bernhardt. In ****an, onnagata, or men taking on female roles, were used in kabuki theatre when women...
- who would vie with each other to purchase the Kabuki actors' favors. Onnagata (female-role) and wakashū-gata (adolescent boy-role) actors in particular...
- : 463-486 : 115-124  in which Enma, the King of ****, falls in love with an onnagata. In Gennai's description of ****, it is a lively place, but is currently...
- In Sakura doki onna gyoretsu, this onnagata is attended by three kuroko....