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Katherine, Catherine, Cathrina Cathrinus is a Latinized masculine version of the feminine name Katherine /Catherine. The name originated from the Greek feminine name Αἰκατερίνα or Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterina, Aikaterinē), which is of unknown etymology.
Otokonoko (男の娘, "male daughter" or "male girl", also pronounced as otoko no musume) is a Japanese term for men who have a culturally feminine gender expression. [1] [2] This includes, among others, males with feminine appearances, or those cross-dressing.
Gyaruo (which can be written as ギャル男, ギャルオ, ギャル汚 in Japanese) are a sub-group of modern Japanese youth culture. [1] They are the male equivalent of the gyaru . [ 2 ] The o suffix that is added to the word is one reading of the kanji for male (男).
Yoshimoto is a playable character in the Japanese version of the visual novel game Ikemen Sengoku; Romances Across Time, produced by Cybird. He has been added to the English version but is as yet not playable. He appears as a boss in Nioh 2 as the first human boss due to the player helping Oda Nobunaga in his campaign to unite Japan. He uses a ...
For instance, in examining kabuki culture during Japan's edo period, cross-dressing was not only used for theater purposes, but also because current societal trends: cross-dressing and the switching of genders was a familiar concept to the Japanese at the time which allowed them to interchange characters's genders easily and incorporate geisha ...
In 2005, Japan had a gender wage gap of 32.8 percent, which decreased to 25.7 percent in 2017. Japan has the third highest wage gap in the OECD. [40] The country's long work hours create an environment that reinforces the wage gap because there is a disproportional difference between how much time men and women spend on paid and unpaid work. [40]
Kagema were often passed off as apprentice kabuki actors (who often engaged in sex work themselves on the side) and catered to a mixed male and female clientele. For male clients, the preferred service was anal sex, with the client taking the penetrative role; [1]: 109 homosexual fellatio is almost unmentioned in Edo period (1603–1867) documents.
Gackt, a Japanese singer-songwriter, is considered to be one of the living manifestations of the Bishōnen phenomenon. [1] [2]Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.