Yakusha-e: Kabuki Prints, a Continuing Tradition
(from 29th Nov 2011 until 4th Mar 2012)Discover the brightly coloured woodblock prints of actors from Japanese popular theatre.
Onoe Baikō VII as the wet nurse Masaoka
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Description
Like earlier print designers, Kōkei depicts moments from actual performances, and his prints were primarily sold at the Kabukiza Theatre in Tokyo until he stopped making them in 2000.
The actor Onoe Baikō VII (1915-1995) was one of Japan’s leading postwar onnagata (female impersonator), who also specialized in the roles of handsome young lovers. He was designated a Living National Treasure in 1968. Kōkei’s portrait, with its exaggerated depiction of the actor’s expression and hand gesture, captures the climactic moment of a kabuki play known as a ‘mie’.
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Details
- Series
- Bust Portraits VIII
- Associated place
- Date
- 1990
- Artist/maker
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Tsuruya Kōkei (born 1946) (designer)
- Associated people
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Onoe Baikō VII (1915 - 1995) (subject)
- Material and technique
- woodblock on ganpi tori no ko paper
- Dimensions
- print 39 x 25 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Philip Harris, 2010.
- Accession no.
- EA2010.42
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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