{"id":69548,"date":"2017-03-10T07:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69548"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:39:05","slug":"a-third-gender-beautiful-youths-in-japanese-prints-exhibition-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69548","title":{"rendered":"A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints Exhibition Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 10<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/third-gender.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[69548]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/third-gender.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints is the first exhibition in North America devoted to the portrayal of wakashu, or beautiful youths\u2014a \u201cthird gender\u201d occupying a distinct position in the social and sexual hierarchy of Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868). Featuring over 65 woodblock prints, as well as paintings, luxury objects and personal ornaments, A Third Gender illuminates the richness of lived experience in Edo society, where complex rules governed gender constructs. This groundbreaking exhibition offers a critical artistic and historical context for gender performance and sexual expression, topics that are particularly resonant within society today. Additional exhibition-related programming and events is forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/page\/programs\/gallery\/a-third-gender\" target=\"_blank\">www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 10 Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69550,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69548\/revisions\/69550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}