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Since Hosoe visited both areas during his youth, Simon may represent a theatrical self-portrait. Although Japan has a centuries-old tradition of men dressing as women in the theater, in the 1970s, Japanese men who cross-dressed outside the realm of entertainment would generally have been shunned. 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