Kabuki Theater [265] The Wisteria Maiden (002)

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Title Kabuki Theater [265] The Wisteria Maiden (002)
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 27, Japan, Theater, Kabuki, Onnogatsa, 1
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000
Subject Onoe, Baikō--Japan--Photographs; Performing arts--Japan--Photographs; Performances--Japan--Photographs; Theaters--Japan--Photographs; Theater--Japan--Photographs; Kabuki--Japan--Photographs; Dance--Japan--Photographs; Men--Japan--Photographs; Actors--Japan--Photographs; Male actors--Japan--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Japan--Photographs; Costume--Japan--Photographs; Theatrical makeup--Japan--Photographs; Theatrical wigs--Japan--Photographs; Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--Japan--Photographs; Wisteria--Art--Photographs; Japan; Wisteria; Clothing and dress; Theater
Keywords Fuji Musume; Onnagata; Ishō; Costumes; Keshō; Oshiroi; Make-up; Katsura; Stages; Tsurieda
Spatial Coverage Japan
Description Photo shows Baiko, a male Japanese actor in a female role ("Onnagata"), performing a kabuki dance known as Fuji Musume ("Wisteria maiden")
Caption on Slide Fuji Musume with actor Baiko in female role ("onnagata"), Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Kabuki...is a classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers."--Wikipedia. Note: "Onnagata...("woman-role"), are male actors who impersonate women in Japanese kabuki theatre."--Wikipedia. Note: "Onoe Baiko VII, (born Aug. 31, 1915, Tokyo, Japan-died March 24, 1995, Tokyo), (SEIZO TERASHIMA), Japanese Kabuki actor who , was revered as the country's leading postwar onnagata (female impersonator) and was designated a Living National Treasure in 1968...Baiko performed the Fujimusume ("Daughter of Fuji") dance more than 1,000 times..."--Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Onnagata" Kabuki Japan Baiko as Fujimusume.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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.
Temporal Coverage 1947-2004
ARK ark:/87278/s6cg067c
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 333248
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cg067c