recently-excluded

Updated: May 25, 2025

But since the time of O-Kuni, women have been at least until very recently-excluded from the Japanese stage; their parts, as among the old Greeks, being taken by men or boys so effeminate in appearance and so skilful in acting that the keenest observer could never detect their sex. Nagoya Sanza died many years before his companion.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series