
Costumes and Customs in Japan

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Alexander [Sasha] Stewart :: A Shot at Art. A woman takes aim with a gun, and prepares to shoot a man standing in front of a canvas, in a scene from the play `Fortunato’, 1928. | src Getty Images
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Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: Russian stage actress Maria Germanova as The Witch, in Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Karl Andreyevich Fischer** :: A character from Konstantin Stanislavski’s production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play ‘The Blue Bird’, at the Moscow Arts Theatre, 1908. / source: The New York Public Library
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** Photographer’s name on verso of the postcard: “К. Фишер Mockba”

Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Portrait of Japanese dancer Michio Ito as ‘The Hawk’ in W.B. Yeats play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916
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GIF with various images by Alvin Langdon Coburn of Japanese dancer Michio Ito
rehearsing
as ‘The Hawk’ in
William Butler Yeats’ half Celtic half Japanese Noh play: At the Hawk’s Well, 1916
/
From the exhibition, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W.B. Yeats’ Noh Reincarnation). Its goal is to examine how the
uniquely
highly stylized ancient
Japanese art form of Noh has shaped art outside of Japan in multiple mediums throughout the twentieth century.

Alvin Langdon Coburn :: Actor in a production of “The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts” by Maurice Maeterlinck. Digital Positive from original negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose roll film,
ca. 1910
/ src: George Eastman Museum
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Vandamm Studio :: Tallulah Bankhead in “Antony and Cleopatra”, 1937 / src: Museum of the city of New York