The Onnagata Actor Hanagiri Toyomatsu (Shisei) III as Ohaya 1793 Ryūkōsai Jokei 流光斎如圭 Japanese The actor Toyomatsu III (1743–1796) earned renown in Osaka and Kyoto as an onnagata (male actor of women’s roles). Here he is shown in a performance late in his career of the courtesan Ohaya in the play Hirai Gonpachi’s Visits to Yoshiwara). Hirai Gonpachi was a rōnin (masterless samurai) of the Tottori fief in western Japan who fled to Edo after committing a murder, and had ill-fated affairs in the Yoshiwara licensed The Onnagata Actor Hanagiri Toyomatsu (Shisei) III as Ohaya 55245

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