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Summary
Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906.
Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Yakusha-e (役者絵), or "actor prints", are Japanese woodblock prints of kabuki actors, popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Prints, especially earlier ones, depict actors generically, and plainly, showing in a sense their true natures as actors merely playing roles. Other prints, meanwhile, take something of the opposite: they show kabuki actors and scenes elaborately, intentionally blurring the distinction between a play and the actual events it seeks to evoke.
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actors
japan
musicians
rites and ceremonies
drawings
japanese
color
cylindar
man
one man
shoulders
ukiyo
drawing
1800
18th century
history of japan
fine prints japanese pre 1915
ultra high resolution
high resolution
japanese art
library of congress
public domain anatomy images
Date
01/01/1800
in collections
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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