Costumes & customs in Japan by Kazuma Ogawa. Tokyo 1892
“No. I, Iidamachi, Shichome, Kojimachiku, Tokyo, Japan.”
Kazuma Ogawa. Costumes & customs in Japan.
Tag: Theatre
Marc Antony and the dead Caesar. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a 1599 resulting tragedy by William Shakespeare, which is based on the historical person Julius Caesar.
The Sun King in theater costume.
The Sun King in theater costume 1700.
Theatricals costumes at Nagasaki Japan. Japan Folk Theater.
Theatricals costumes at Nagasaki Japan. From the book: Two journeys to Japan. 1856-7, by Kinahan Cornwallis. Illustrated by the author. Published by Thomas Cautley Newby. London 1859.
Costume of Dione, Mother of Venus by Léon Bakst.
Fantaisie Sur Le Costume Moderne, Dioné’, By Léon Bakst 1914.
Performance of the actors, at Nagasaki Japan.
Ladies witnessing the performance of the actors, at Nagasaki Japan.
No masks by Kiyotoki-Shimomura
No masks by Kiyotoki-Shimomura By the death of Kiyotoki-Shimomura on May 29th, 1922, at the age of fifty-five, not only Nippon, but the world at large, lost a master carver… Read More
Ko-omote. Noh. Japanese theater masks.
Ko-omote. Noh. Japanese theater masks. Four no-masks. Above left: The blind singer. Semimaru Kimura. Upper right: type Hashihime, girl transform into a demon. Bottom left: Heshimi Akujo (demon) of Shigeyoshi… Read More
Greek tragedy and comedy masks
Greek tragedy and comedy masks Greek pottery
The Fairy Ariel by William Shakespeare
The Fairy Ariel by William Shakespeare. Ariel (air spirit), a fictional character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Ariel is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescued him from the tree in… Read More