Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as the Woodcutter Gankutsu no Gorozo (right), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; from the illustrated book yakusha kuni no hana (prominent actors of japan).

The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Seno-o Taro, Ichikawa Komazo II as Yorimasa, Nakamura Nakazo I as Taira no Kiyomori, and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kiou Takiguchi (right to left), in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

A work made of color woodblock print; page from the illustrated book "yakusha kuni no hana".

The Actors Iwai Hanshiro IV as Otatsu-gitsune, Nakamura Nakazo I as Raigo Ajari, Sakata Tojuro III as Kamada Gon-no-kami Masayori, and Ichikawa Yaozo II as Sakon-gitsune (right to left), in the play "Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1770, c. 1772

Katsukawa Shunsho

back <<<