Noh Theater [001]

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Title Noh Theater [001]
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 3
Description Photograph (detail) of screen painting: possibly an example of genre painting known as Rakuchu-Rakugai Zu (Scenes in and around the Capital), possibly depicting a Noh stage in Kyoto
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1975
Subject Genre painting--Photographs; Screens--Photographs; Theater--Art--Photographs; Performances--Art--Photographs; Nō plays--Art--Photographs; Actors--Art--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Japan; Art; Genre painting; Theater; Screen painting
Keywords Arts & Crafts; Rakuchu-Rakugai Zu; Rakuchu Rakugai Zu
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Caption on Slide Screen painitng (detail), color on paper, mid 16th century, Muromachi period.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "The production of paintings depicting scenes in and around Kyoto, the ancient capital, increased during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...Rakuchu rakugai zu not only present an accurate, almost photographic, overview of the capital but also reflect something of the political atmosphere in the ancient city..."--Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University website. Note: Muromachi period: approximately 1337 to 1573 Note: Original caption information provided as: "Janze-Noh stage (det. Of screens of Rakuchu) color on paper mid 16th c. Muromachi Per. Enc.O.Art.Vol.3.Pl.12"
Type Image
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
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ARK ark:/87278/s6sb4pmz
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 339553
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sb4pmz
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