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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.

Detail of The actor Nakamura Shikan IV as the fisherman Fukashichi, Tōkyō, 1869 (Museum No: EA1971.2
Ichikawa Danjūrō XII as Nangō Rikimarufront

© Tsuruya Kōkei

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Ichikawa Danjūrō XII as Nangō Rikimaru

  • Description

    Like most kabuki actors, Ichikawa Danjūrō XII (born 1946) was born into an acting family going back many generations. Kabuki actors begin training in classical dance, music and acting as young children, and may continue performing until their seventies or eighties.

    Each kabuki family has a number of special ‘stage names’ (myōseki): as actors advance in their careers, they successively change their names to use the more 'senior' stage names in a process known as shūmei. Ichikawa Danjūrō is one of the most revered myōseki of all. Ichikawa Danjūrō XII changed his stage name three times before assuming this particularly revered title in 1985.

  • Details

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    Series
    Bust Portraits X
    Associated place
    Asia › Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1995
    Artist/maker
    Tsuruya Kōkei (born 1946) (designer)
    Associated people
    Ichikawa Danjūrō XII (born 1946) (subject)
    Material and technique
    woodblock on ganpi paper
    Dimensions
    39.5 x 25.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut › colour woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Philip Harris, 2010.
    Accession no.
    EA2010.45

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