Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 51126
Amusements of Actors on the Third Floor
- Artist / 作者
- Utagawa Toyokuni I歌川豊国
- Date / 年代
- 1801
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / robynbuntin
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 504 × 332 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
- Published by / 公開者
- 黒川トウマ
- Rights / 権利
- No commercial-app permission documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
Catalog note / 解説
Classic illustration for picture book entitled Yakusha Sankai-kyo (Amusements of the Actors on the Third Floor). Here is an excerpt from Jack Hillier, \"The Art of the Japanese Book\", pp.578-580: But Toyokuni's books were not confined to portraiture. He knew the public craving for intimate views of the lives of the actors off-stage and back-stage as well as for pictures of them performing, and the Yakusha Sankai-kyo (Amusements of the Actors on the Third Floor), of 1801, was intended to satisfy this obsessive curiosity, of a kind which has always persisted, in the west as well as in Japan, in regard to entertainers in the public eye. The \"Third Floor\" is the \"Green Room\", and represent…
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