Title

Transgender Identity in Pre-modern Japan

Authors

Sam Friedline, Elizabethtown CollegeFollow

Document Type

Student Research Paper

Date

Summer 2020

Academic Department

Communications

Abstract

This paper examines the documented history of transgender identity in pre-modern Japan. Through literary analysis of the Torikaebaya Monogatari and depictions of Kabuki actors and sex workers in woodblock prints, transgender individuals’s place in Japanese society is deconstructed, societal view of LGBTQIA+ individuals during these periods is interpreted, and where trasngender people were most prevalent in society is determined.

Notes

SCAD

Faculty Advisor: Matt Skillen

Rights

https://jayscholar.etown.edu/terms_of_use.html

Recommended Citation

Friedline, Sam, "Transgender Identity in Pre-modern Japan" (2020). Summer Scholarship, Creative Arts and Research Projects (SCARP). 9.
https://jayscholar.etown.edu/scarp/9