Perlman Teaching Museum - Meiji Emperor Attending the Noh Theater

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Meiji Emperor Attending the Noh Theater

ca. 1879
19th century
14 1/4 x 28 3/16 in. (362 x 716 mm)

Toyohara Chikanobu, Japanese, (1837–1912)

Object Type: Prints

Creation Place: Asia, Japan

Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection

Accession Number: 2010.038

From a series of prints chronicling the public life of the emperor during the 1870s and 1880s, this triptych shows the Meiji court in attendance at a Noh theater production. Noh, which played to the samurai elite during the Tokugawa (Edo) period, lost this class of patrons during the Meiji reforms. However, once Noh gained stature as a model "Japanese" art form as the nation opened up to the West, it gained new audiences among the rising cultural elites and visiting foreign dignitaries.

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19th Century, color woodcuts, Japanese, paper (fiber product)*, prints (visual works)*, temple blocks*, woodcuts (prints)*

19th Century
color woodcuts
Japanese
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
temple blocks - Woodblocks used in temple rituals in China, Japan, and Korea.
woodcuts (prints) - Prints made using the process of woodcut.