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{{nihongo|'''''Futanari'''''|ふたなり||seldom: {{lang|ja|二形}}, {{lang|ja|双形}}, literally: ''dual form''; {{lang|ja|二成}}, {{lang|ja|双成}}, literally: "[to be of] two kinds"}} is the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] word for [[hermaphrodite|hermaphroditism]], which is also used in a broader sense for [[androgyny]].<ref name="Leupp">{{cite book |
Beyond Japan, the term has come to be used to describe a [[Hentai|commonly pornographic genre]] of [[eroge]], [[manga]], and [[anime]], which includes characters that show primary sexual characteristics from both [[female]]s and [[male]]s.<ref name="Leupp"/> In today's language, it refers almost exclusively to characters who have a female or overall feminine body, but have both female and male primary genitalia (although a [[scrotum]] is not always present, while [[breasts]], a [[Human penis|penis]], and a [[vulva]] are). The term is also often abbreviated as '''''futa'''''(s)
==Historic origins==
[[File:Dosojin01s2040.jpg|thumb|Stones (with ''[[shimenawa]]'') representing ''{{lang|ja-latn|dōsojin}}'' found near [[Karuizawa, Nagano]]]]
The most accredited etymology of the word comes from an ''emakimono'', a type of painted hand scroll, titled
▲The most accredited etymology of the word comes from an emakimono, a type of painted hand scroll, titled "Yamai No Soushi" (Scroll of Illness), drawn between the heian and kamakura period. In it are several depictions of individuals who possess traits of both typical male and female genitalia. The word futanari is used in the passage "You shall see how they possess both male and female roots. Truly they are of both forms/kinds/or aspects (futanari)."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diseases and Deformities (Yamai no Sōshi) |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/diseases-and-deformities-yamai-no-s%C5%8Dshi/vwUxsMohoOz3Jg |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref>
Japanese [[folk religion]] created diverse fantasies related to [[sexual characteristics]]. Traditional vocal pieces that date back hundreds of years deliver rough evidence that a change of gender was not ruled out,<ref name="krauss" />{{rp|78–79}} and that the representation of the gender was used to worship deities such as ''{{lang|ja-latn|[[dōsojin]]}}'', which sometimes had ambiguous gender, being neither male nor female. Gary Leupp adds that the origins might even reach back to the origins of [[Buddhism]], since the deities would not necessarily have a fixed or determinable gender.<ref name="Leupp" />
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