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Description: This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: 1879 – 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.0 x 73.5 cm

Description: This triptych is a Kabuki Theater Poster. The first panel features two actors dressed as women. Both are holding fans and standing in front of a red background. The actor on the left is taunting the actor in the second panel who has blue hair and is wearing a white Kimono while holding a string of beads. The background in the second panel is a deep blue with a magnolia tree and flowers and a parrot in the trc. The third panel features a third actor in a green kimono. He is facing the actor in the second panel and appears to be angry. He is holding a rope with both hands and has 2 swords in his belt. He is standing in front of a red background and a portion of the background from the second panel.

Subject: figures; male; Kabuki; activity; acting

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.02 a-c

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Kabuki Theatre Poster

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1879 – 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.03 a-c

Description: This Kabuki Theater Poster features 3 actors: Two playing women, and one a man. The man is in the second panel holding an elaborate sword that exits the print at the bottom of the page. He is coyly looking into the third panel where his gaze finds a coyly looking woman: Her body faces right (away…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: 1879 – 1879

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 35.5 x 72.0 cm

Description: This Kabuki Theater Poster features 3 actors: Two playing women, and one a man. The man is in the second panel holding an elaborate sword that exits the print at the bottom of the page. He is coyly looking into the third panel where his gaze finds a coyly looking woman: Her body faces right (away from the man) but her head subtly turns to the left. A third actor is in the first panel. This woman looks into the second panel at the man she is dressed much more simply than the other two. The background is a dark solid blue, and the entire print is framed by a black and gold border.

Subject: Activity; Acting; Kabuki Theater; Figures; Women; Man

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.03 a-c

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Kabuki Theatre Poster, Three Ninja

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1878

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.01 a-c

Description: (a)actor with sword in his mouth, holding a banner (b) 37.6 x 25.4/35.9 x 24.4 actor holding a scroll, the head of a green dragon in front of him (c) 37.5 x25.5/36.0 x 24.5 actor with clasped hands

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster, Three Ninja

Date: 1878

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.4 cm

Description: (a)actor with sword in his mouth, holding a banner (b) 37.6 x 25.4/35.9 x 24.4 actor holding a scroll, the head of a green dragon in front of him (c) 37.5 x25.5/36.0 x 24.5 actor with clasped hands

Subject: figure; activity; male

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.01 a-c

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Scrapbook

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Part Of: Alpine Club of Canada fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook pertaining primarily to the Calgary Stampede and the Banff Indian Days. Contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and leaflets. Also includes newspaper clippings pertaining to Mt. Assiniboine, Timber Carnivals, and other ACC-affliated events.

Date Range: 1850-1952

Reference Code: M200 / AC 148M / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Alpine Club of Canada fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M200 / S6 / V14

Series: IV.A. Other material: textual

Sous-Fonds: AC 148M

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M200 / AC 148M / 1

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: 1850-1952

Physical Description: 2.5 cm of textual material (42 pages ; 30.5 x 25.5 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook pertaining primarily to the Calgary Stampede and the Banff Indian Days. Contains newspaper clippings, photographs, and leaflets. Also includes newspaper clippings pertaining to Mt. Assiniboine, Timber Carnivals, and other ACC-affliated events.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada

Subject Access: Banff Indian Days; Banff Indian Grounds; Calgary Stampede; Rodeo; Festival; Winter Carnival; Ranching; Winter sports

Geographic Access: Banff; Lake Louise; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Assiniboine Park; Calgary; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on material

Processing Status: Processed

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Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.06 a-c

Description: This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Seven Wise Women (from all eras) of Japan

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.5 x 74.0 cm

Description: This tryptic features 7 wise women all described by a text panel. These panels are made from 2 portions: a white block filled with text, and a red rectangular block to the right and overlapping the white. The print is framed by a border which is black and has light blue and pink decorative bands in it. The seven women are in a room that is mostly green in colour. All the windows are closed, and blinds shut. From left to right: a woman stands reading; a woman sits at a table with scrolls on it (both women facing right); Three women in the center panel engaged in - maybe - a conversation: 2 are standing and one sitting in the middle front of them; two women in the third panel face right, the first sitting and reading, the second standing. The women are all wearing red fabric tied to the waist and flowing to their feet.

Subject: figures; women; gathering

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.06 a-c

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Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1878

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.04

Description: Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A g…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Yoshimachi Menten, Civilization-36 Banquets

Date: 1878

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.0 cm

Description: Print is divided in half diagonally by a brown staircase on the left side that one Geisha is climbing. Another Geigha is standing on the floor, holding a sash of red fabric in her mouth. She is wearing a checkered Kimono. A servant is bending to her left picking out a piece of green fabric. A garden with a tree is in the background. The floor is green, and panelled wood.

Subject: Figures; Japanese; geisha; servants; activity; changing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.04

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Yueilo at Shinbashi, Hutaba-Cho, Civilization 36 Banquets

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.05

Description: This print is set in the inside of a restaurant. The walls are mostly blue, and on the right side of the print is a woman kneeling in a raised doorway. Beneath her is a small covered a table with her shoes on it. The left side of the print shows a woman walking towards the inside of a room, with…

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Artist: Toyohara Kunichika

Title: Yueilo at Shinbashi, Hutaba-Cho, Civilization 36 Banquets

Date: 1877

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 36.7 x 25.0 cm

Description: This print is set in the inside of a restaurant. The walls are mostly blue, and on the right side of the print is a woman kneeling in a raised doorway. Beneath her is a small covered a table with her shoes on it. The left side of the print shows a woman walking towards the inside of a room, with her head turned back towards the woman previously described. Two more people, one woman and a foreign man, are in the back portion of the picture. A lamp is cut off by the border on the left side.

Subject: Figures; Japanese; Women; Geisha; Restaurant

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: KoT.04.05

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