dance; kimonos; women; boys; men (male humans); screens (furniture)
Lion dance, performed as part of the noh play Mochizuki. Lady Shiragiku, wife of Lord Yasuda, and her son Hanawakamaru watch intently, while Inspector Ozawa dozes. This dance was performed in 1879 for ex- U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant when he...
legends (folk tales); robes (main garments); children (people by age group); boys; sandals
Back to back print. A man in a priest's robes and headdress cups the chin of a young boy standing beside him; a rosary dangles from his right wrist. The boy, dressed in traveling clothes, grasps the priest's wrist and lays his face in the man's...
Akoya, an entertainer in Kyoto’s Kiyomizu zaka pleasure quarters, was mistress to the Heike warrior Taira Kagekiyo (died 1196), who was captured at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185 but had escaped. The Genji commander ordered Hatakeyama Shigetada...