EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dim...
EditorialA group of volunteers with the Chevra Kadisha of Florida prepare to perform a tahara, a purification ritual that is part of Jewish burial preparations, on the bodies of two victims of the Champlain Tower South condominium collapse, in Miami on July 13, 2021. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dim...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dim...
EditorialThe Actors Segawa Kikujiro I as Nobutsura's wife Karumo and Otani Oniji I as Tahara Matataro in the play "Shusse Momijigari," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the eleventh month, 1747. Torii Kiyonobu II; Japanese, active c. 1725-61. Date: 1747. Dim...