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Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hi…

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Artist: Unknown

Title: Kabuki Theatre Poster

Date: n.d.

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 24.5 x 18.5 cm

Description: Small Kabuki Theatre Poster. A Man stands with legs far apart leaning back far to the right with his body and face facing left. He holds an umbrella that is cropped off by the edge of the print. He stands on a green ground. The backgroung is dark and features an almost black sky, a darkbrown hill, a small blue mountain, and a river. There are 2 text panels down the left side. Translator of print commented : Drawn by: Ichi bai tei(?), sai(?) ho. In images of the floating world Ichibaishi is also known as Yoshimine.

Subject: figure; Japanese; Kabuki; landscape; Japan

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

Catalogue Number: UnK.04.08

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Lady Nalih’la Going Down to the East

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Artist: Yasuda Shodo

Date: 1887

Medium: woodblock on paper

Catalogue Number: ShY.04.01 a-c

Description: This triptych features three women on a journey. What appears to be Mount Fuji is in the background of the first panel, and all three panels are divided in half by a watery background and a yellow sandy foreground; the first panel is the only with trees but has no figures in it. A figure on a hor…

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Artist: Yasuda Shodo

Title: Lady Nalih’la Going Down to the East

Date: 1887

Medium: woodblock on paper

Dimensions: 37.5 x 71.0 cm

Description: This triptych features three women on a journey. What appears to be Mount Fuji is in the background of the first panel, and all three panels are divided in half by a watery background and a yellow sandy foreground; the first panel is the only with trees but has no figures in it. A figure on a horse and one standing to the left of the horse make up the second panel, in the third panel a lone figure stands, facing the women in the second panel who’s heads are turned to the left.

Subject: Landscape; Japan; Figures; Women; Nobel Ladies; Animal; Horse

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

Catalogue Number: ShY.04.01 a-c

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National Museum of Ethnology : Meiji crafts from across the sea : special exhibition of the Morse collection : exhibit plan

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)

Published Date: 1990

Author: National Museum of Ethnology

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.

Call Number: 06.1 N19m OS

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Author: National Museum of Ethnology

Responsibility: National Museum of Ethnology

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 12 pages

Scale: 1 / 100; 1 / 20; 1 / 30

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)

Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; Morse, Edward Sylvestre; Japan; Japanese; Collection

Abstract: Pertains to the exhibit plan for the Morse Collection in March of 1990 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan

Contents: 1F Plan; 2F Plan; B1F Plan; A-A; B-B; Exhibit Case; Large Exhibit Case; Shelf Case; Shadow Picture; B1F; Exhibit Tool

Accession Number: 2014.8340

Call Number: 06.1 N19m OS

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: National Museum of Ethnology website

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