Tsuru-ya KOKEI (b. 1946): The actor Kataoka Gado XIII as Oen in the kabuki play: "Fuingiri"

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Artist: Tsuru-ya KOKEI (b. 1946)

Title:The actor Kataoka Gado XIII as Oen in the kabuki play: "Fuingiri"

Series: Kabuki-za okubi-e series no.5

Publisher:Self-carved and self-printed.

Date:1986

Medium:Woodblock print on thin ganpi paper.

Size/Format:oban (15" x 10.5")

Description:The actor Kataoka Gado XIII as Oen in the kabuki play: "Fuingiri". LIMITED EDITION print, numbered: #25 of only 54 impressions. Kokei uses extremely thin ganpi paper for his work. After a limited number of prints have been made, Kokei DESTROYS the printing blocks by carving his name across them. - Most of his prints are bust portraits reminiscent of the type developed by Sharaku in the late 18th century. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the Kabuki-za in 1988, the Pacific Asia Musuem, Pasadena, Ca., honored Kokei with a major exhibition of his work.

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Tsuru-ya KOKEI (b. 1946): The actor Kataoka Gado XIII as Oen in the kabuki play: "Fuingiri"

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