Roppo, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"
- Date:
- 1898
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Three robed figures in tall pointed black caps walk across an open, pale ground toward the viewer, wearing layered kimono in indigo, brown, and pale green with a white outer robe on the rightmost figure. Behind them a gnarled, mossy tree with green and rust-orange foliage rises beside a calm river, with soft blue-green hills and a dark, shadowy standing figure among the rocks at left. The palette is muted — indigo, tan, sage, and pale grey-blue — with vertical Japanese text along the right margin; this color woodblock print, "Roppo" from the series "Pictures of Noh Performances (Nogaku Zue)," was made by Tsukioka Kōgyo in 1893.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Roppo, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)" was created by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月岡耕漁) in 1898.
Roppo, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)" depicts theater.