ART H 309 A: Final Manifold Exhibition

Group Five: Gender Expectations, Expression, and Expectations

Arno Yang, Ella Martin, Zoey Zhang, CK Viacrucis, Maggie Smith, and Jens Malone

Introduction: 

Expectations:

 Jens Malone: Women

• Expectations for Women in the Edo period, Specifically Regarding Class and Career
• Women’s Choices, or Lack of, Specifically Regarding in their Career
• How Women Entered into Working within the Yoshiwara District

Women Representing the Four Social Classes, c. 1836-1838

Mother Teaching her Daughter Calligraphy, from the series, Twelve Occupations of Women, c. 1798

A Yoshiwara Analogue of the Story of Koko (Huang Xiang) one of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety, c.1791

Arno Yang

Expectations:

CK Viacrucis: Wakashu 

• Does the unique social expectations, specifically sexual role, of wakashu qualify them as a “third” gender?

  Isoda Koryusai. Samurai Wakashu and Maid.

        Miyagawa Isshō. Samurai and Wakashu

Suzuki Harunobu. Plum Blossoms at the Edge of the Water, from Fashionable Versions of Poetry Immortals in the Four Seasons

Expression:

Maggie Smith: Edo Women Fashion/Costume: Kimonos

• Upper Class Women: Sumptuary Laws, Rich Fabrics and Color, Embroidery, Seasonality, Expressing Wealth and Femininity.
• Courtesans: Breaking the Rules, Red (Safflower), Desire Through the Restricted Fashion
• Kabuki Performers: Trend-setters, Heavily Ornate, Theatrical, Onnagata

The Courtesan Takihime and Attendants (from the series New Patterns of Young Greens) (1795), Chōbunsai Eishi, colored woodblock print, 38.8 x 26.1 cm

Kimono (Uchikake) (first half of 19th C), artist unknown, 62 inches long from back, Silk figured satin weave (rinzu) with stenciled imitation tie-dyeing, resist dyeing, and silk and gilt thread embroidery, and satin stitches

The Onnagata Actor Iwai Kumesaburo III as Sakura-hime and the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Kiyomizu Seigen

Oppression:

Zoey Zhang: Wakashu

• Symbolic Meaning and Identity Assosiated with Hair and Clothing

• Sakako and Disappearance of Wakashu
• Introduction of Western Culture

Wakashu with a Shoulder Drum by Hosoda Eisui (active 1790-1823), Sir Edmund Walker Collection

Detail of “Two Couples in a Brothel” (1769–70), by Suzuki Harunobu.

Woodblock print by Ishikawa Toyonobu, c. 1740, showing two actors portraying a wakashū (left) and an adult man (right)

Oppression: