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...
EditorialIchikawa Danj?r? looking in a mirror, The make-up kabuki actor Ichikawa Danj?r? VII (1791-1859) looks in a mirror, in preparation for his role of Otokonosuke in the play Meiboku Sendai hagi. The piece was staged in 1829 in the Kawarazaki theater in Edo...
EditorialIchikawa Danj?r? looking in a mirror, The make-up kabuki actor Ichikawa Danj?r? VII (1791-1859) looks in a mirror, in preparation for his role of Otokonosuke in the play Meiboku Sendai hagi. The piece was staged in 1829 in the Kawarazaki theater in Edo...
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 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...
EditorialIchikawa Danjuro VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke, Edo period (1615?1868), probably 1829, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (shikishiban surimono); ink and color on paper, Image: 8 1/4 ? 7 1/4 in. (21 ? 18.4 cm), Prints, Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786?1865).