Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
Typical Price
- Exceptional composition by the father of Japanese abstract printmaking: $10,000–$50,000
"Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre" is one of Onchi's documentary studies of Tokyo cultural venues — a commitment to recording the specific visual character of the city's performance spaces that paralleled his more formal artistic investigations. The interior of a theatrical space offered him particular compositional advantages: the layered architecture of audience seating, stage, and fly space; the specific quality of theatrical lighting; the relationship between the performance space and the audience's visual experience of it. These venue studies served both documentary and formal purposes.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Inside the Hoga Kuza Theatre depicts kabuki.
