theater announcer addressing audience, Kakutei

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Kakutei, theater announcer addressing audience
Kakutei, theater announcer addressing audience
Kakutei
theater announcer addressing audience
1818, Edo period (1600–1868)
theater announcer addressing audience, 1818, Edo period (1600–1868)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: color woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 130 x 174 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 51 3/16 x 68 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 0000.1602
Not on display
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Surimono sometimes functioned as calendars, although their format is not the same as Western calendars. Here, the theater announcer holds a scroll that indicates the long and short months for 1818, a Tiger Year (the Asian astrological cycle is twelve years, wtih each named for an animal). The writing on the curtain says that the print was presented by a patronage organization.

Exhibitions

Surimono Prints from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art
1991