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Stars of the Tokyo stage : Natori Shunsen's Kabuki actor prints

Title: Stars of the Tokyo stage : Natori Shunsen's Kabuki actor prints / Lucie Folan [and others].
Publication: Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Folan, Lucie.

Description

144 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Stars of the Tokyo stage celebrates the glamour of kabuki theatre amid the dynamic atmosphere of Japan in the 1920s and 30s. Drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Natori Shunsens superb woodblock portraits of the superstar actors of the time are exquisitely reproduced and discussed in detail, alongside a selection of spectacular costumes from the kabuki stage. Stars of the Tokyo Stage brings together essays by experts in the fields of kabuki, printmaking and modern Japan. It is an entertaining and valuable resource for anyone with an interest in Japanese art, culture and theatre.

Subject

Genre/Form

portraits.
facsimiles (reproductions)
Facsimiles
Exhibition catalogs
Portraits
Portraits.
Facsimiles.
Fac-similés.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139) and index.

Contents

Natori Shunsen: artist of Tokyo / Lucie Folan -- Cult of the actor / C Andrew Gerstle -- Modern Tokyo: the 1920s and 30s / Chiaki Ajioka -- In the actor's image: kabuki prints in a time of change / Amy Reigle Newland -- Beyond the stage / Melanie Eastburn -- Kabuki costumes: enduring symbols / Robyn Maxwell -- Natori Shunsen's impressions: plays, prints, actors.

ISBN

9780642334275
0642334277

OCLC

ocn768595706
768595706
SCSB-1673303

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library