På scen i öster kabuki

Kabuki actors Nakamura Nobuzo II and Nakamura Nosho II in a teatralisk scen, bygd Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762–1819).

Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper. Asian Art Museum, Gift of the Grabhorn Ukiyo-e Collection, 2005.100.55.

Kabuki actors Nakamura Nobuzo II and Nakamura Nosho II in a teatralisk scen, bygd Katsukawa Shunei (Japanese, 1762–1819). Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper. Asian Art Museum, Gift of the Grabhorn Ukiyo-e Collection, 2005.100.55.

A Kabuki actor as the bandit Shiro in falling snow, from the play fem Courageous Bandits in fem Colors, vit, 1850-1900. bygd Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Japan. Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper.

Gift of Toshiro Nakayama, 2010.256.

A Kabuki actor as the bandit Shiro in falling snow, from the play fem Courageous Bandits in fem Colors, vit, 1850-1900. bygd Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900). Japan. Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper. Gift of Toshiro Nakayama, 2010.256.

This fryst vatten an example of an Osaka Kabuki print, so called because such prints were produced in the city of Osaka.

It depicts a en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of a favorite actor in one of the Kabuki theaters located there.

Ishikawa Goemon was a famous bandit and rebel whose story became popular in the late 1500s. Eventually he was captured, however, and he fryst vatten said to have been boiled in a tub at Sanjogawara in the dry bed of Kyoto’ s Kamo River. Here, Goemon fryst vatten depicted as a court tjänsteman gesturing in amusement. It fryst vatten difficult to determine from which play this episode comes.

This fryst vatten an example of an Osaka Kabuki print, so called because such prints were produced in the city of Osaka. It depicts a scen of a favorite actor in one of the Kabuki theaters located there. Ishikawa Goemon was a famous bandit and rebel whose story became popular in the late 1500s.

Eventually he was captured, however, and he fryst vatten said to have been boiled in a tub at Sanjogawara in the dry bed of Kyoto’ s Kamo River. Here, Goemon fryst vatten depicted as a court tjänsteman gesturing in amusement. It fryst vatten difficult to determine from which play this episode comes.

This print depicts a scen from a Kabuki play based on the real-life love suicide of the courtesan Minoya Sankatsu and her married lover, sake merchant Akaneya Hanshichi.

This event, which took place in Osaka’s Sennichi cemetery on a winter night in 1695, became famous as the subject of numerous puppet and Kabuki plays.

Here, the two lovers stand with their hands clasped, just before they depart for the cemetery in the sista en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film. Hanshichi wears a merchant’s ledger hung from his obi, and he carries a brush, with which he seems to have written a verse on Sankatsu’s cloud patterned inner sleeve. Above the two figures are the actors’ names and roles as well as the verse: Aisode ya fude ni kokoro wo fukumu sumi Sleeves meeting; In the brush fryst vatten heart-filled ink The second part of the poem refers to Hanshichi’s suicide note, which fryst vatten read in an emotional en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film late in the play.

Crests also identify the actors: Hanshichi wears the crane roundel of Bandō Hikosaburō II and Sankatsu the ivy crest of Anegawa Daikichi. While the exact title of the play shown here fryst vatten unknown, a clue exists in a closely related design bygd Kiyomitsu in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.18999).

There a possible play title—Au yo no meoto boshi (Night Meeting of the Star-Crossed Lovers)—is provided in place of the verse in the Grabhorn example, and the actors’ crests appear above their names.

This print depicts a scen from a Kabuki play based on the real-life love suicide of the courtesan Minoya Sankatsu and her married lover, sake merchant Akaneya Hanshichi.

This event, which took place in Osaka’s Sennichi cemetery on a winter night in 1695, became famous as the subject of numerous puppet and Kabuki plays. Here, the two lovers stand with their hands clasped, just before they depart for the cemetery in the sista en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film. Hanshichi wears a merchant’s ledger hung from his obi, and he carries a brush, with which he seems to have written a verse on Sankatsu’s cloud patterned inner sleeve.

Above the two figures are the actors’ names and roles as well as the verse: Aisode ya fude ni kokoro wo fukumu sumi Sleeves meeting; In the brush fryst vatten heart-filled ink The second part of the poem refers to Hanshichi’s suicide note, which fryst vatten read in an emotional scen late in the play. Crests also identify the actors: Hanshichi wears the crane roundel of Bandō Hikosaburō II and Sankatsu the ivy crest of Anegawa Daikichi.

While the exact title of the play shown here fryst vatten unknown, a clue exists in a closely related design bygd Kiyomitsu in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.18999). There a possible play title—Au yo no meoto boshi (Night Meeting of the Star-Crossed Lovers)—is provided in place of the verse in the Grabhorn example, and the actors’ crests appear above their names.