Kabuki actor painting: 60 Photos
Japanese Kabuki Actors Captured in 18th-Century Woodblock Prints photographs
【びでお絵巻】Kabuki Actors Portraits a Genius Painter Sharaku Left.
Unidentified Kabuki Actor, Restored Ukiyo-e Color Woodblock Jigsaw images
Videos
A Poetics of Inscribed Kabuki Actor Portraits - John T. Carpenter
Kabuki: The peoples dramatic art - Amanda Mattes
YAKUSHA-E, Kabuki Actor Prints, an Ukiyo-e sub-genre
Yamamura Toyonari 山村豊成 (1885-1942) Paintings of Kabuki actors Jepan
Utagawa Kunimasu | Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizō V pictures
FAQs
Danjūrō XI (1909–65) was among the top kabuki actors in the post-World War II period. He performed in both traditional and contemporary plays. His performances as Prince Genji in an adaptation of Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) constituted a high point in postwar kabuki theatre.
Yakusha-e (役者絵), often referred to as actor prints in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century.
Kabuki, traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner. A rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular staging and costuming, it has been a major theatrical form in Japan for four centuries.
(It will interest Western actors to know that Kabuki superstars earn as much as $100,000 a month .) The competition is for the affection of the public and for the esteem of the elders, who know the difference between a popular player and a major actor.
Originally, both men and women acted in Kabuki plays, but eventually only male actors performed the plays: a tradition that has remained to the present day. Male actors specialized in women's roles are called onnagata. Two other major role types are aragoto (rough style) and wagoto (soft style).
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