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This is a basic resource guide for cross gender studies in the Japanese context, with a specific focus on cross gender performance in Japanese theater. Click on the tabs above to navigate to specific subjects. Each subject page contains a brief list of introductory works and/or exemplary materials. (Those lists are intended to be introductory, rather than comprehensive).
Reference Books
Pronko, Leonard Cabell. 1973. Guide to Japanese Drama. Asian Literature Bibliography Series.
Brazell, Karen and James T. araki. 1998. Traditional Japanese Theatre: an anthology of plays.
Pronko, Leonard Cabell and Minoru Fujita. 1996. Shakespeare East and West. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library.
Leiter, Samuel and Jiro Yamamoto, 1997. New Kabuki Encyclopedia: a revised adaptation of Kabuki jiten.
Leiter, Samuel L. 2002. A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance.
Harris, John Wesley. The Traditional Theatre in Japan : Kyogen, Noh, Kabuki, and Puppetry.
Journals
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