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Ryûkôsai Jokei, also known as Taga Jihei, was a [[Kamigata]]-based ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' artist, active c. 1777-1809.
He is known for his images of [[kabuki]] actors (''[[yakusha-e]]''), and in particular has been identified as perhaps the first to depict ''[[onnagata]]'' not as the women they were pretending to be, but more accurately, as men playing a female role. For example, the ''onnagata'' depicted in the illustrated book ''Ehon niwa tazumi'' (1790) have decidedly masculine facial features.
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==References==
*Joshua Mostow, "Wakashu as a Third Gender and Gender Ambiguity through the Edo Period," in Mostow and Asato Ikeda (eds.), ''A Third Gender'', Royal Ontario Museum (2016), 34.
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