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Actors - Japan

Images

  • Actors in a confrontation by a river from a contemporary drama. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1857.
  • Line up of five actors as "rough" popular heroes. Colour woodcut by Kuniaki, 1862.
  • Four actors at a shrine: two as menials or attendants: one as a fashionable young samurai and one as a girl. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • A young female role actor performing a butterfly dance. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
  • Actors in a garden outside a house. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
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Catalogue

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    Actor Nakamura Utaemon III in one of his great stage hits. Colour woodcut by Toyokuni, ca. 1812.

    Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825. | Date: [1812?] | Reference: 35369i
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    An actor as Kumago Naozane before a station on Tokaidō highway. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1852.

    Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864. | Date: Month 5, 1852 | Reference: 36011i
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    Actors Sawamura Tossho as a young warrior and Nakamura Shikou V as an older man, confronting a common foe. Colour woodcut by Kunichika.

    Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900. | Reference: 35211i
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    Actor Ichikawa Ebizō (Danjūrō) as a Buddhist abbot holding a fan in the snow. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1858.

    Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864. | Date: 1858 | Reference: 35957i
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    Actors miming; smaller figures illustrate a mime sequence. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1875 (?).

    Chikashige (Otagawa Chikashige), active approximately 1880. | Date: [1875?] | Reference: 34913i
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