The grace of a swan, the subtle and graceful movements, the beauty and finesse, these are all the aspects of the Japanese Onnagata 1. The Onnagata (male actors portraying women) in Japan are considered the ideal woman, according to the revered Misaki Isaka, their conduct "off stage is responsible for the artistry on stage, such as singing (ka), dancing (bu) and acting (ki)” 2. This is how Japanese society has come to view them over the years, but in reality, the Onnagata is a repressed individual who does not is allowed to express his masculinity in any facet of society. This can be seen in a quote, in a short story, written by Yukio Mishima; “He must live as a woman in his daily life, it is unlikely that he will be considered an accomplished Onnagata. When he appears on stage, the more he concentrates on performing this or that essentially feminine action, the more masculine he will appear”3. The Onnagata, in Japan, is the ideal perfect woman who surpasses all women, but she is the contradictory male representation of male fantasy. The way Onnagata is essentially in Japanese society has created a new gender ideal in Japan and a new form of repression. “Kabuki would have died if increasingly believable female characters, instead of merely pretty, had not begun to appear in the mature male kabuki that emerged in the 1650s… an open transition from gay theater to Gei theater , gei meaning art in Japanese...Only actors past their adolescence could suffice and the law required them to reduce their physical attractiveness" 4. The dictatorial members of the government of the time felt that homosexual women and men had overstepped the limits of theater and thus banned them. One of the reasons for this is the essential composition of society: women in the middle of paper ......protests against this form of life, I never realized that this was the basis of their ideas .19. Isaka, Misaki, "Box Lunch Etiquette", Manners and Mischief, 56. (Ayame, a famous Onnagata of the Tokugawa period who established decorum for Onnagata. He said one must show dedication in each of one's actions , including eating, and that one should never leave their role on stage They must become onna in every way and be beautiful even in old age. mischievous look with a chaste spirit and should never be seen to deliberately make today's audience laugh because it is shameful, their most important role is to appear chaste). simply a fragment of a way of life).