True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Chitose-za Theatre at Hisamatsucho
by Inoue Yasuji
by Inoue Yasuji
$1,000–$8,000. Common views: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Inoue's Meiji-era Tokyo views, influenced by his teacher Kiyochika, have both artistic and historical value. His early death makes works scarce.
The Chitose-za theatre at Hisamatsucho was one of the Meiji period's new Western-style playhouses, built to accommodate the emerging taste for modern dramatic forms including the reformed kabuki known as katsureki-mono. Yasuji depicts the building's exterior with attention to its architectural novelty — the theatre's facade representing a deliberate departure from the wooden playhouse tradition of Edo. The print documents the transformation of Tokyo's entertainment culture during the first decades of the Meiji period, when theatre became a site of negotiation between tradition and modernity.
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Chitose-za Theatre at Hisamatsucho was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Chitose-za Theatre at Hisamatsucho depicts kabuki, set at Tokyo.