[Kabuki Theater Performance]

[Kabuki Theater Performance]

Part of a triptych (right). Missing middle panel. Depicting a kabuki performance at the Chiyoda Inner Palace. The scene is set in late winter/early spring due to the plum blossoms (ume, 梅). Several male figures in kabuki makeup carry a bronze bell on the right panel while on the left panel the spectators appear in the distance.
Signed Yōshū Chikanobu (楊洲周延) on right panel. Publisher's seal: Fukuda Kumajirō (福田熊次郎) in a fish-shaped seal. Blockcutter's seal present, but unidentified.

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Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirō 福田熊次郎 (Firm: Gusokuya 具足屋) (active c. 1874-1898).

1895

Meiji 28

1895-01-01

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print (medium), woodblock (technique), paper (material), 15x10 inches (dimensions)

Japanese

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2019.0.21

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