EditorialThe Actors Otani Hiroemon III as Shinagawa Okaminosuke (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arashishi Otokonosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at...
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Nagoya Osan in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; J...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fi...
EditorialKantouka, fuki or bog rhubarb, Petasites japonicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialUchikake. Japan. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 184 x 128.2 cm (72 x 50 1/2 in.). Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; resist and tie-dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; l...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fi...
EditorialUchikake. Japan. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 184 x 128.2 cm (72 x 50 1/2 in.). Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; resist and tie-dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; l...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fi...
EditorialUchikake. Japan. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 184 x 128.2 cm (72 x 50 1/2 in.). Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; resist and tie-dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; l...
EditorialThe Actors Otani Hiroemon III as Shinagawa Okaminosuke (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arashishi Otokonosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at...
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Nagoya Osan in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; J...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fi...
EditorialUchikake. Japan. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 184 x 128.2 cm (72 x 50 1/2 in.). Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; resist and tie-dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; l...
EditorialThe Actors Otani Hiroemon III as Shinagawa Okaminosuke (right), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arashishi Otokonosuke (left), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at...
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as Nagoya Osan in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771. Katsukawa Shunsho ?? ??; J...
EditorialThe Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Elevent...
EditorialThe Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fi...
EditorialUchikake. Japan. Date: 1775-1800. Dimensions: 184 x 128.2 cm (72 x 50 1/2 in.). Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave; resist and tie-dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laidwork and couching; l...
EditorialKantouka, fuki or bog rhubarb, Petasites japonicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.