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[Album of Japanese theatrical woodblock prints.]

1869-1874

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Album of woodblock prints of Kabuki theater actors. A theater bill has been placed at the front of the album, in which the actors of these portraits are listed in the manner of sumo contestants, followed by the sequence of color woodblock prints. Blockcutters include Katada Horichô, Uta Hori, and Hori Ei; and printers Yamamotoya, Kagaya, Kyu, Kinjudô, Kineidô, and Koeidô. The portraits are chiefly the male actors of the Kabuki theater, many of whom were known personally by the artist.
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Part of Omega Project
Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
Part of Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Part of Japanese and Chinese Prints and Drawings Donated by Gillett G. Griffin
This group of Japanese and Chinese prints and drawings was donated by Gillett G. Griffin (1928–2016), curator emeritus of graphic arts, in honor of Dale Roylance. It represents a small portion of the Far Eastern works on paper held by the Graphic Arts division. Also included are several sketchbooks, which were collected together with the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings.
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Call Number
Q-000686
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Publisher
[Tokyo] : [publisher not identified], [1869 -1874]
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Author
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900
Language
Japanese
Subject
Wood-engraving, Japanese
Color prints, Japanese
Art—Japan
Theater—Japan—Pictorial works
Kabuki—Pictorial works
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