The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
[A clown wearing colorful costume and mask, with wild hair and hat with animal on top, and holding a rattle]

Similar

[A clown wearing colorful costume and mask, with wild hair and hat with animal on top, and holding a rattle]

description

Summary


Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906.
Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Yakusha-e (役者絵), or "actor prints", are Japanese woodblock prints of kabuki actors, popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and into the beginnings of the 20th century. Prints, especially earlier ones, depict actors generically, and plainly, showing in a sense their true natures as actors merely playing roles. Other prints, meanwhile, take something of the opposite: they show kabuki actors and scenes elaborately, intentionally blurring the distinction between a play and the actual events it seeks to evoke.

date_range

Date

1700 - 1800
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

Explore more

clowns
clowns