True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Chitose-za Theatre at Hisamatsucho
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.