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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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    the alias "Taishū engeki-kai no Nyūhīrō Tensai Onnagata" (大衆演劇界のニューヒーロー 天才女形, Taishū engeki's New Hero Genius Onnagata) and best remembered as Osei in...
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  • fact that unlike bivalves, the shell of abalone has only one part Japanese: 女形・女方, "woman-role") Onnagata are male actors who play female roles in Japanese...
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  • titled Jiyiji (集異記 Collection of Strange Stories). There is also Luonuxing (螺女形) in a story collection titled Soushen houji (搜神後記 Sequel to Records of the...
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  • okra オクラ オクラ okura okra 秋葵 秋葵 onagata male actor in female kabuki roles 女形 女形 onnagata male actor in female kabuki roles 女方 女方 onigiri onigiri 御握 御握 onigiri...
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    "歌舞伎俳優の中村雀右衛門さん死去 91歳". Asahi Shimbun Digital. Retrieved 10 March 2012. "人間国宝の女形、中村雀右衛門さんが死去". MSN Sankei News. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012...
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  • Izumo Kunisaki (國崎 出雲, Kunisaki Izumo) Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro Onnagata (女形, female role) kabuki actor and first year student of the entertainment division...
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  • became the subject of his first two photobooks, SHIBA 踊る惑星 (2010) and しば正龍 女形の魅力 (2013). Outside of his Shiba photographs, Ishikawa's early works primarily...
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    the aging 四代目市川小團 次 [Ichikawa Kodanji IV]; and the 15-year-old, virtuoso 女形 [onnagata; ladies’ roles] 三代目 沢村田之助 [Sawamara Tanosuke III]. This blossoming...
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    不意の声 "A Sudden Voice" みいら採り猟奇譚 "Cruel tale of a hunter become prey" 1960 「女形遣い」 "Uses of a Female Impersonator" 1961 Yōjigari (Japanese: 幼児狩り, Yōjigari)...
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    well-suited to strong leading roles. He was praised in particular for his onnagata (女形) female roles, as well as his shosagoto (所作事) and buyō (舞踊) dance performances...
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  • Yamada Yoichi Takahashi May 18, 2008 (2008-05-18) 33 (Japanese: 流し目の星!華麗なる天才女形を救え!!) Noriyo Sasaki Yumi Kageyama May 25, 2008 (2008-05-25) 34 (Japanese:...
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