(exhibit) Edo Theatre: Kabuki

EDO THEATER: THE DRAMA OF KABUKI
art exhibit

WHEN: until May 18, 2008

AT: Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
(401-454-6500)
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI 02903

INFO and EVENT DESCRIPTION, at www.risd.edu/museum_exhibitions.cfm:
Kabuki theater developed in the 17th century and is closely identified with the culture of the “floating world,” the world of entertainment and pleasure that evolved as part of Edo-period (1603-1867) Japanese society. The prints in this exhibition include 18th- and 19th-century depictions of actors and the theater.

IMAGE BELOW, from www.risd.edu/museum_exhibitions.cfm
Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese, 1769-1825)
Sawamura Tanosuke II as the lady-in-waiting? Takigawa, 1811
woodblock print
Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 20.1161
Photography by Erik Gould