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General Lord Yoritomo watches a Nō performance (Udaishō Yoritomo kō on'nōjō ran no zu) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi — Japanese Print, ca. 1865

General Lord Yoritomo watches a Nō performance (Udaishō Yoritomo kō on'nōjō ran no zu)

by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Date:
ca. 1865
Medium:
Print
Format:
Oban

Description

A steep bird's-eye view looks down across a veranda and empty wooden stage floor toward a crowd of spectators seated in tight rows below, their dark hair and blue-patterned garments rendered as a dense pattern along the bottom of the sheet. In the upper right a Nō actor in a red, blue, and green hexagon-patterned robe over a red and gold patterned under-robe, with a long red wig and a green demon-like mask, is caught mid-leap or gesture on the stage; the coffered ceiling above is decorated with red peony roundels, and a pine bough and a single hemp leaf cross the foreground railing. Ink outlines in black define the architecture, with flat washes of indigo, vermillion, mustard yellow, and green throughout; this scene of Lord Yoritomo watching a Nō performance is a print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1865.

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General Lord Yoritomo watches a Nō performance (Udaishō Yoritomo kō on'nōjō ran no zu) was created by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年) in ca. 1865.

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