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Edo gallery 2: Kabuki visuality
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 Onnagata
(female impersonators) often set the styles for townswomen as
well as male prostitutes. The right shows facing pages from Toshi
no hana (Flowers of youth, 1691), which gave Kabuki fans information
on onnagata fashions. The city, theater, and name of the actor
are all specified, together with information about the style of
kimono "modeled" by the actor. Translation into English
is by Liza Dalby.
From Liza Crihfield Dalby, Kimono: Fashioning Culture
(New Haven: Yale UP, 1993) 305.
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Genroku period Onnagata fashions.
From Liza Crihfield Dalby, Kimono: Fashioning Culture
306.
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Nishimura
Shigenaga, Uki-e. interior of kabuki theater (performance of the
play Chushingura).
From The Advent of Photography in Japan 19.
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Utagawa Kunisada, "The Roles of the Maiden Yae and Segawa,"
from the series Mirror of Historical and Domestic Plays.
Woodblock print; 36.8 x 25.6 cm; 1858.
This print shows the onnagata actor Iwai Tojaku (Hanshirô
III) in the role of the courtesan Segawa.
From Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton, The Women of the Pleasure
Quarter: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World
( New York: Hudson Hills Press and the Worcester Art Museum, 1995)
90.
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 Katsukawa
Shunchô, "Danjûrô V in a 'Shibaraku' Role."
Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gofun on silk; 49.1 x 24.8 cm;
ca. 1788.
From Donald Jenkins, ed., The Floating World Revisited
(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Portland Art Museum,
1993) 225.
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 Katsukawa
Shunkô, "Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Kazusa no
Gorobei Tadamitsu." Woodblock print; 32.2 x 22.5 cm; 1780.
From The Floating World Revisited 237.
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 Katsukawa
Shunchô, "Ichikawa Danjûrô V in His Dressing
Room with the Program Announcer." Woodblock print; 38.5 x
25.7 cm; ca. 1781.
From The Floating World Revisited 238.
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 Tôshûsai
Sharaku, "Ichikawa Ebizô as Takemura Sadanoshin. Woodblock
print; ôban (approx. 38.2 x 23 cm); ca 1794-95.
Ichikawa Ebizô was the name taken by Ichikawa Danjûrô
V (above) after passing on the Danjûrô name to his
son, Ichikawa Danjûrô VI, and going into semi-retirement.
From Jûzô Suzuki, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku
(Tokyo: Kodansha, 1968) 96.
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 Tôshûsai
Sharaku, "Segawa Kikunojô III as the Courtesan Katsuragi
and Sawamura Sôjûro II as Nagoya Sanza." Woodblock
print; 37.5 x 24.8; 1794-1795.
From The Women of the Pleasure Quarter 96.
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Tôshûsai
Sharaku, "Osagawa Tsuneyo II." Woodblock print; 37.8
x 25.4; 1794-1795.
From The Women of the Pleasure Quarter 169.
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Tôshûsai Sharaku, "Nakajima Wadaemon as
Bôdara Chôzaemon and Nakamura Konozô as Gon
of the Kanagawaya Boathouse." Woodblock print; approx 38.2
x 23; 1794-1795.
From Suzuki, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku 48.
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Tôshûsai Sharaku, "Bandô Mitsugorô
II as Ishii Genzô." Woodblock print; approx 38.2 x
23; 1794-1795.
From Suzuki, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku 38.
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Tôshûsai Sharaku, "Otani Oniji II as Kawashima
Jibugorô." Woodblock print; approx 33 x 14.3 cm; 1794-1795.
From Suzuki, Masterworks of Ukiyo-e: Sharaku 48.
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Utagawa
Kunisada, "The actor Onoe Kikugorô II as the ghost
of the obsessed monk Seiden. Woodblock print; ôban format;
1852.
From Roger S Keyes, The Male Journey in Japanese Prints
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) 93.
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Shunkôsai Hokuei, "The actor Arashi Rikan II as Danshichi
Kurôbei in the night murder scene from The Summer Festival.
Woodblock print; ôban format; 1832.
From Keyes, The Male Journey in Japanese Prints 125.
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Murder of Ohagi by Saisaburô. From
the series Twenty-eight Verses for Famous Murders. Woodblock print;
ôban format, 1867.
From Keyes, The Male Journey in Japanese Prints 167.
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