Catalog record · 目録番号 51126
Amusements of Actors on the Third Floor
Catalog note / 解説
Classic illustration for picture book entitled Yakusha Sankai-kyo (Amusements of the Actors on the Third Floor). Here is an excerpt from Jack Hillier, \"The Art of the Japanese Book\", pp.578-580: But Toyokuni's books were not confined to portraiture. He knew the public craving for intimate views of the lives of the actors off-stage and back-stage as well as for pictures of them performing, and the Yakusha Sankai-kyo (Amusements of the Actors on the Third Floor), of 1801, was intended to satisfy this obsessive curiosity, of a kind which has always persisted, in the west as well as in Japan, in regard to entertainers in the public eye. The \"Third Floor\" is the \"Green Room\", and represent…
Image record / 画像情報
ROBYNBUNTIN · 1801 · robynbuntin
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