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From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
五代目市川団十郎|Scene from the Play Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees (Yoshitsune senbon zakura) is an 8 ink by Katsukawa Shunkō, a Romanticism work, depicting Actor, held at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This print shows two people in a small room. One is kneeling, dressed in a simple outfit with a patterned obi. The other stands bent over, wearing a checkered robe and carrying a woven basket on their back. The room has a wooden post and a low table with a few items on it. The standing figure looks like they’re in a role—maybe a traveler or a servant. Their posture and the basket suggest they’re in motion, even though the scene is still. Next, look up actor to see how theater roles like this one were performed in Japan.
Katsukawa Shunkō spent his life in Edo, where crowded theaters and teahouses buzzed around him.
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