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Ukiyo-e
Use this image collection with the MIA's Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints Teaching the Arts feature.
View a collection of Kabuki prints from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. What are the actors doing? What are they wearing? Do they have props or sets on the stage? Gather items to use in a play of your own. Create characters and a script and perform a Kabuki drama.
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Woman as the Poet Bunya No Yasuhide from the series "Fashionable Women Disguised as the Six Immortal Poets"
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Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on all Three Floors (Gazu yakusha san-kai kyo_)
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"The Fickle Type" from the Series "Ten Types of Physiognomic Studies of Women"
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The Courtesan, Konosumi
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(Courtesan on the Back of a Carp as a Mitate of The Sennin Kinko_''s Legend)
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The Sumo_ Wrestler Onigatake To_emon
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Picture Book: Field of Vines (Ehon makuzu hara)
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Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on all Three Floors (Gazu yakusha san-kai kyo_)
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:103.0859375px;"><img class="inline_img fake_1.35809018568" id="zoomer_97355_21175iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/56/3b/98560b74ecb6b2409a7338afaab1/140/120/97355.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="'Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on the Three Floors', Utagawa Toyokuni ; Text by Shikitei Sanba ; Nishinomiya Shinroku" height_offset="0" /></div>
Two Lovers Playing a Flute
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.734375" id="zoomer_72973_7997iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/11/e4/3f9a105d20747c28aa7e0347cba5/140/120/72973.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Calender Print for Meiwa 2 and a Mitate of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, Suzuki Harunobu" height_offset="0" /></div>
Woman as the Poet Bunya No Yasuhide from the series "Fashionable Women Disguised as the Six Immortal Poets"
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.671875" id="zoomer_72150_21067iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/42/14/2a0af3c8435ab46c903dc4cb1bbe/140/120/72150.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="'Woman as the Poet Funya No Yasuhide', Cho_bunsai Eishi ; Nishimuraya Yohachi" height_offset="0" /></div>
Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on all Three Floors (Gazu yakusha san-kai kyo_)
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:105.102639296px;"><img class="inline_img fake_1.33203125" id="zoomer_101031_33887iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/6d/1c/420ef1f729a7ebdce56d6fafc937/140/120/101031.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on all Three Floors (Gazu yakusha san-kai kyo_), Utagawa Toyokuni ; Text by Shikitei Sanba ; Nishinomiya Shinroku" height_offset="0" /></div>
"The Fickle Type" from the Series "Ten Types of Physiognomic Studies of Women"
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.661458333333" id="zoomer_138_49003iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/fe/9d/571660ee6e3bd6b41195ff16a1a6/140/120/138.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="'Fickle Type', Kitagawa Utamaro" height_offset="0" /></div>
The Courtesan, Konosumi
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.665364583333" id="zoomer_139_43776iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/83/50/ac593061f3b1385a6d385bc0b23b/140/120/139.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Courtesan Konosumi, Kitagawa Utamaro ; Tsutaya Ju_zaburo_" height_offset="0" /></div>
(Courtesan on the Back of a Carp as a Mitate of The Sennin Kinko_''s Legend)
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.180989583333" id="zoomer_1412_4472iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/04/03/e32f82ef1f555905b64b23139d6a/140/120/1412.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Courtesan on the Back of a Carp as a Mitate of Kinko_, Suzuki Harunobu" height_offset="0" /></div>
The Sumo_ Wrestler Onigatake To_emon
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.69921875" id="zoomer_91349_10972iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/b8/41/e0dfac7f6f37e377bd836a1f3918/140/120/91349.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="The Sumo_ Wrestler Onigatake To_emon, Utagawa Kunisada" height_offset="0" /></div>
Picture Book: Field of Vines (Ehon makuzu hara)
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:106.560951437px;"><img class="inline_img fake_1.31380208333" id="zoomer_97242_45982iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/15/56/68300a509bf9655297563585a548/140/120/97242.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Picture Book: Field of Vines (Ehon makuzu hara), Nishikawa Sukenobu ; Kikuya Kihe_" height_offset="0" /></div>
Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on all Three Floors (Gazu yakusha san-kai kyo_)
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:103.0859375px;"><img class="inline_img fake_1.35809018568" id="zoomer_97355_53526iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/56/3b/98560b74ecb6b2409a7338afaab1/140/120/97355.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="'Picture Books of Amusements of Actors on the Three Floors', Utagawa Toyokuni ; Text by Shikitei Sanba ; Nishinomiya Shinroku" height_offset="0" /></div>
Two Lovers Playing a Flute
<div class="unzoomed_thumbnail" style="width:140px; height:120px;"><img class="inline_img fake_0.734375" id="zoomer_72973_32078iip_loading" src="http://www.artsconnected.org/media/11/e4/3f9a105d20747c28aa7e0347cba5/140/120/72973.jpg" class="iip_loading" title="" alt="Calender Print for Meiwa 2 and a Mitate of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, Suzuki Harunobu" height_offset="0" /></div>
