id:			95401
accession number:	1916.1154
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1154
updated:		2023-02-04 20:49:06.726000

Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebizo II as Yanone Goro, 1740. Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764). Hand-colored woodblock print; sheet: 40.2 x 63.7 cm (15 13/16 x 25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1154

title:				Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebizo II as Yanone Goro
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creation date:			1740
creation date earliest:		1740
creation date latest:		1740
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hand-colored woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 40.2 x 63.7 cm (15 13/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1934-09-05T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 5-October 28, 1934).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T04:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005).

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PROVENANCE

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The print illustrates the typical interior of a Kabuki theater. The stage was connected to the audience by the <em>hanamichi</em>, the ramp or runway extending from the stage to the rear of the theater over which the actors would strut in dramatic roles. Patrons often stayed all day for the plays. Unlike quiet Western audiences, Kabuki fans were spirited, buying food from vendors and even shouting praises to their favorite actors as they came onto the stage. In 1734, the first Japanese manual on perspective was printed. Masanobu was probably the first printmaker to use this method of describing three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional support. He helped popularize the perspective print, and he introduced other innovations such as two-color printing and hand-coloring—this print is hand-colored using yellow, red (tan), and red-brown.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 354, fig. 58
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914

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